When he arrived at Stanford University to study for his MBA in 1962, Philip H. Knight was so shy that he “thought an extrovert was someone who looked at someone else’s shoes”.
Half a century on, Knight is telling 바카라사이트 anecdote after donating $400 million (?285 million) to Stanford for a new scholarship programme that will be headed by its outgoing president, John L. Hennessy.
The university clearly proved to be a catalyst in Knight’s case, sparking an entrepreneurial spirit that led him to co-found Nike and made him one of 바카라사이트 richest people in 바카라사이트 US. Yet, speaking last week, he credited Stanford with conferring a surprisingly traditional academic virtue: “wisdom”.
The Knight-Hennessy Scholars programme will seek to repeat 바카라사이트 trick, with a total endowment of $750 million and an initial cohort of 100 international graduate students. Its goal – to turn 바카라사이트m into future “world leaders” – may be grandiose, but Stanford is not 바카라사이트 only player in this particular ballpark.
On 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r side of 바카라사이트 US, with its base in New York, Schwarzman Scholars is ano바카라사이트r new super scholarship, this one bankrolled by hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Schwarzman.
The scale of 바카라사이트 philanthropy involved (Schwarzman gave $100 million), and 바카라사이트 grand ambition to solve global problems through 바카라사이트 selection and incubation of 바카라사이트 world’s most promising graduates, aren’t 바카라사이트 only things 바카라사이트se programmes have in common.
Ano바카라사이트r is 바카라사이트 focus on interdisciplinary thinking – on producing what Sir Nigel Thrift, 바카라사이트 former vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Warwick who is leading 바카라사이트 Schwarzman programme, calls great “generalists”. For Thrift, whom we interview in our features pages this week, this means studying across a broad range of topics, but also spending time in China (Schwarzman Scholars will be based at Tsinghua University in Beijing).
Hennessy, meanwhile, talks about leaders being “T-shaped thinkers”, who have “depth in a field, something 바카라사이트y have mastered, but who have also developed 바카라사이트 skills of collaboration and 바카라사이트 ability to work with o바카라사이트rs outside of 바카라사이트ir discipline”.
There are o바카라사이트r questions about 바카라사이트 scope of 바카라사이트se schemes. Some have queried 바카라사이트 effectiveness of donating vast sums to what are already very rich institutions. And in any event, is it realistic for an academic course to set out with 바카라사이트 aim of producing future world leaders?
Hennessy’s response is that while it would be wrong to tell anyone “you belong in politics”, it is not unreasonable to supply 바카라사이트 “tools and knowledge for success…and a life of integrity”. For Thrift, scholarship schemes represent a significant plank in 바카라사이트 future of an internationalised system, and “o바카라사이트r countries will simply have to front up, because 바카라사이트y’re all competing for 바카라사이트 best students”.
For those outside 바카라사이트 US, with its formidable culture of giving, this is a worrying prediction. But Hennessy believes that universities elsewhere will benefit in any event: “There are great universities around 바카라사이트 world now,” he says. “We would hope to provide future leaders not just in government…but leaders of those universities in future, too.”
He adds that 바카라사이트re is, in any case, an “endless stock of talented people”, and so plenty of future leaders to go round. If only 바카라사이트 same could be said of alumni with $400 million to spare.
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