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“If you exclude half the population who happens to be female, which has happened for the longest time in the executive ranks, or African Americans or Hispanics and others, you are not integrating the best of the best in your business. ” Jeffrey Jacobson, UB alumnus and donor Jeffrey Jacobson, BS ’81, and his wife, Irene, are dedicated supporters of UB. They were inspired to create a fellowship at the School of Management — their second — focused on diversity when they learned that their gift would result in double their intended impact, thanks to UB’s Inclusive Excellence Scholars...

Terms of making schools more competitive. this program initiative, the president just put in the last year-and-a-half and got through congress. a lot of money going to schools all around the country. but also, the president wants a heavy emphasis in this speech on actual college completion. he's going to talk about how one of the problems is a lot of people start college in the united states, but don't finish it. and so he wants to attack that in a number of levels. first of all, dealing with making sure community colleges are strong, it's not counting on all of the major, you know, ivy league...