NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
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And the bonuses, many say, run deeper than that.<br />
“The perks in the Ivy League are more intangible t<br />
han they are material,” said Tom Beckett, the athl<br />
etic director at Yale. “The perks and salaries at<br />
these other big schools, that’s not going to happe<br />
n. But there are wonderful things that do happen.”<br />
Ivy League universities emphasize the prestige of<br />
their institutions to coaching candidates. This ye<br />
ar, Columbia was No. 4 in U.S. News and World Repo<br />
rt’s annual ranking of national universities, and<br />
people at the university consider its alumni netwo<br />
rk to be particularly strong.<br />
The athletic department in 2007 received pledges o<br />
f $10 million from William V. Campbell, the chairm<br />
an of the board of Intuit, and $5 million from Rob<br />
ert K. Kraft, the chairman of the Kraft Group and<br />
the owner of the New England Patriots. Both played<br />
football at Columbia. Campbell is also the chairm<br />
an of Columbia’s trustees, giving the team a power<br />
ful advocate on campus.<br />
“Even successful alums from other areas of the sch<br />
ool don’t have the same affinity for the school th<br />
at athletes do,” said Jake Novak, a senior produce<br />
r at Fox Business who chronicles Columbia athletic<br />
s on a widely read blog. “They can open so many do<br />
ors for a coach and give him entree into a differe<br />
nt world in New York.”<br />
Novak and others said that for a savvy coach, the<br />
Columbia job was a sparkling opportunity. The admi<br />
nistration has shown a new commitment to athletics<br />
, as evidenced by recent increases in operating bu<br />
dgets, the opening next year of a new primary faci<br />
lity for the athletics department and efforts to h<br />
elp athletes in areas like class scheduling.<br />
“Fifteen years ago, there was a long list of thing