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Title Tag
El portal para el Marketing, publicidad, medios y tecnologia
Length: 60 character(s)
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Meta Description
El primer portal de marketing, Publicidad Anuncios y Anunciantes
Length: 64 character(s)
Meta descriptions allow you to influence how your web pages are described and displayed in search results. A good description acts as a potential organic advertisement and encourages the viewer to click through to your site.
Keep it short and to the point; the ideal meta description should contain between 70 and 160 characters (spaces included).
Ensure that each of your web pages have a unique, straightforward meta description that contains most important keywords. These keywords are especially important because they appear in bold when they match the user's search query (See the Google Preview below).
Check your Google Search Console (Search Appearance > HTML Improvements) for any warning messages to identify meta descriptions that are too long/short or duplicated across more than one page.
Google Preview
El portal para el Marketing, publicidad, medios y tecnologia
El primer portal de marketing, Publicidad Anuncios y Anunciantes
Search engines may create their own titles and descriptions if they are missing, poorly written and/or not relevant to the content on the page and cut short if they go over the character limit. So it's important to be clear, concise and within the suggested character limit.
|Los 7 pecados capitales del marketing en Instagram
|La inversión en marketing y publicidad encara la recta final del año con una sonrisa de oreja a oreja, según trendScore
|14:00 Anunciantes Jane Birkin solicita a Hermès que retire su nombre del bolso más icónico de la "maison" francesa
|13:00 Digital Nokia da el salto a la realidad virtual con OZO, una cámara esférica para grabar en 360º que llegará a finales de año
|12:00 Gente David Taylor es el nuevo consejero delegado de Procter & Gamble
|11:14 Anunciantes La OCU recomienda a los usuarios reclamar daños al sector de la automoción
|11:07 Publicidad La inversión en marketing y publicidad encara la recta final del año con una sonrisa de oreja a oreja, según trendScore
|10:30 Digital Amazon quiere un espacio aéreo exclusivo para que sus drones repartan paquetes
|10:10 Publicidad Por primera vez los anuncios de la Super Bowl aparecerán también en su "Livestream"
|Jane Birkin solicita a Hermès que retire su nombre del bolso más icónico de la "maison" francesa
|Nokia da el salto a la realidad virtual con OZO, una cámara esférica para grabar en 360º que llegará a finales de año
|2016: el año en el que la televisión dejará de ser la reina de la publicidad
|Por primera vez los anuncios de la Super Bowl aparecerán también en su "Livestream"
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|El 89% de los expertos en marketing de diversos sectores fechan el final de la crisis en 2016
|Concurso emprendedores IEBS
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|¿Le apetece un helado? Eche un vistazo a esta deliciosa carta (publicitaria)
|Cómo transportar y comer un Big Mac sin perder el glamour
|Lo que debe hacer (y lo que no) para poner en forma su cerebro y dejar fluir la creatividad
|Marcas de coches: ¡a reinventarse o a morir!
|Campañas de Marketing: Cepsa lanza 'Cepsa Pay', una App para repostar desde el móvil
|Spots: La Despensa firma la campaña de phone sharing, el nuevo servicio de .Tuenti
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marketingdirecto.com currently has 2 HTML header tags. Each page should have one, and only one, <H1> tag. Use keywords in your headings with your most important keywords in the top level, and be sure to maintain the <H1> to <H6> hierarchy.
While it is important to ensure every page has an <H1> tag, only include more than one per page if you're using HTML5. Instead, use multiple <H2> - <H6> tags.
Keywords Cloud
This Keyword Cloud provides an insight into the frequency of keyword usage within the page.
It's important to carry out keyword research to get an understanding of the keywords that your audience is using. There are a number of keyword research tools available online to help you choose which keywords to target.
Keyword Consistency
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Keyword consistency is the use of keywords throughout the different elements of the webpage. Consistent keyword use helps crawlers index your site and determine relevancy to search queries.
The table above highlights the most frequently used keywords on your page and how consistently you're using them.
Alt Attribute
We found 33 images on this web page.
19 ALT attributes are empty or missing.
Alternative text allows you to add a description to an image. Since search engine crawlers cannot see images, they rely on alternative text attributes to determine relevance to a search query. Alternative text also helps makes an image more likely to appear in a Google image search and is used by screen readers to provide context for visually impaired users.
It looks like you're missing alt text for several images on your page. Check the images on your website to make sure accurate and relevant alternative text is specified for each image on the page.
Try to minimize the number of alt text characters to 150 or less (including spaces!) to optimize page load times.
Discovered Pages
A low number can indicate that bots are unable to discover your pages, which is commonly caused by bad site architecture & internal linking, or you're unknowingly preventing bots and search engines from crawling & indexing your pages. An unusually high number could be an indication of duplicate content due to URL parameters.
Make sure your website's XML sitemap is present and that you've submitted it to the major search engines. Building backlinks to your website's internal pages will also help bots to discover, crawl and index them, while building authority to help them rank in search results at the same time.
Check Index Status and Crawl Errors in Google Search Console to track the status of your crawled/indexed pages.
If you use parameters in your URL like session IDs or sorting and filtering, use the rel="canonical" tag tag to tell search engines which version of those pages is the original.
In-Page Links
We found a total of 112 link(s) including 0 link(s) to files
Links pass value from one page to another. This value is called 'link juice'.
A page's link juice is split between all the links on that page so lots of unnecessary links on a page will dilute the value attributed to each link. There's no exact number of links to include on a page but best practice is to keep it under 200.
Using the Nofollow attribute in your links prevents some link juice, but these links are still taken into account when calculating the value that is passed through each link, so using lots of NoFollow links can still dilute PageRank.
Broken links
We found 1 broken links on this web page
Broken links send users to non-existent web pages. They hurt a site's usability and reputation, which impacts SEO.
We've found 1 broken links on marketingdirecto.com that need to be fixed. You should take the time to find any broken links on your page to fix or remove them. In the future, keep on the lookout and be proactive about removing dead links.
WWW Resolve
Warning, no 301 redirects are in place to redirect traffic to your preferred domain. Pages that load successfully both with and without www. are treated as duplicate content!
Search engines see www.marketingdirecto.com and marketingdirecto.com as two different websites with the same content. This causes them to see a lot of duplicate content, which they don't like.
Right now your website is not directing traffic to www.marketingdirecto.com and marketingdirecto.com to the same URL. It is crucial that you fix this.
Set a preferred domain in Google Search Console and use a 301 redirect to divert traffic from your secondary domain.
A robots.txt file allows you to restrict the access of search engine crawlers to prevent them from accessing specific pages or directories. They also point the web crawler to your page's XML sitemap file.
We checked marketingdirecto.com/robots.txt didn't find a robots.txt file. Use Google Search Console to submit and test your robot.txt file. You can also test individual pages to make sure Google isn't crawling any restricted files.
XML Sitemap
We checked marketingdirecto.com but couldn't find an XML sitemap.XML sitemaps contain the list of your URLs that are available to index and allows the search engines to read your pages more intelligently. They can also include information like your site's latest updates, frequency of changes and the importance of URLs.
Your site is currently missing an XML sitemap. We recommend you generate one for your site and submit it through both Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
Normally, your XML sitemap would be found at marketingdirecto.com/sitemap.
Make sure to only include the pages you want search engines to crawl, so leave out any that have been blocked in a robots.txt file. Avoid using any URLs that cause redirects or error codes and be consistent in using your preferred URLs (with or without www.), correct protocols (http vs. https) and trailing slashes. You should also use your robots.txt file to point search engine crawlers to the location of your sitemap.
URL Parameters
Perfect, your URLs look clean.
Use the URL Parameters Tool in Google Search Console to tell Google how your URL parameters affect page content and how to to crawl URLs with parameters. Use this tool very carefully - you can easily prevent Google from crawling pages you want indexed through overly restrictive crawling settings, especially if you have URLs with multiple parameters.
Underscores in the URLs
Great, you are not using underscores (these_are_underscores) in your URLs.
Great, you aren't using underscores (these_are_underscores) in your URLs.
Google sees hyphens as word separators while underscores aren't recognized. So the search engine sees www.example.com/green_dress as www.example.com/greendress. The bots will have a hard time determining this URL's relevance to a keyword.
Blocking Factors
Flash: Yes
Frames: No
We've detected that marketingdirecto.com uses Flash, frames or iframes.
While it often looks nicer, Flash content can't be properly indexed by search engines. Maximize your SEO efforts by avoiding Flash.
Search engines also have problems with frames because they can't crawl or index the content within them. Avoid them if you can and use a NoFrames tag when you can't.
Domain Registration
Created 18 years ago
Expires in 5 years
Your domain is the human-readable address of your website on the Internet. How long your domain name has been registered does have a limited impact on your rankings in search results. The newer your domain the harder it can be to achieve a higher rank. To help offset this, consider buying a second-hand domain name.
Do you know that you can register your domain for up to 10 years? By doing so, you will show the world that you are serious about your business.
We found a Blog on this website.
Starting a blog is a great way to engage with your audience and increase your online visibility by attracting qualified traffic from new sources.
Use our tips to optimize your blog to build links and improve performance.
This web page is super optimized for Mobile Visitors
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Your site is well configured for mobile users.
Mobile Rendering
80% of adult Internet users now have a smartphone. You should definitely be optimizing your website to render on the most popular mobile devices.
Touchscreen Readiness
Make the most important buttons/links large enough to be tapped easily.
Mobile Compatibility
Perfect, no embedded objects detected.
Font Size Legibility
Perfect, this web page's text is legible on mobile devices.
Mobile Viewport
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The content fits within the specified viewport size.
Keep in mind that since the width (in CSS pixels) of the viewport may vary, your page content should not solely rely on a particular viewport width to render well. Consider these additional tips:
- Avoid setting large absolute CSS widths for page elements.
- If necessary, CSS media queries can be used to apply different styling depending on screen size.
- Ideally, serve responsively-sized images.
Mobile Speed
Optimize images
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Leverage browser caching
Enable compression
Avoid landing page redirects
Unfortunately, the mobile page speed for marketingdirecto.com is Slow.
Since mobile device CPUs are less powerful than desktop CPUs, speed tips that reduce CPU consumption (for instance JavaScript Parse time) need to be addressed first.
See Google's PageSpeed Insights Rules for more information on how to improve each of the elements in this section.
Mobile Frameworks
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Keep your URLs short and clean and avoid long domain names when possible.
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Keep in mind that URLs are also an important part of a comprehensive SEO strategy. Use clean URLs to make your site more "crawlable" by Google™.
Resource: Search for a good domain name. If no good names are available, consider a second hand domain. To prevent brand theft, you might consider trademarking your domain name.
Great, your website has a favicon.
Favicons are the small icons that appear next to your site's name or URL in a browser. They can be displayed in the address bar, a browser tab title or bookmarks. Make sure it is consistent with your brand.
Here is a way one company used a special favicon to improve user experience.
Custom 404 Page
Your website does not have a custom 404 Error Page.
Your server responded with the HTTP status code: 403
404 error pages are displayed when the page you are trying to open can't be found on the site's server for a variety of reasons.
It looks like marketingdirecto.com doesn't have a 404 error page. This damages your site's usability. Generic 404 error pages strand users on a page with no links or suggestions of what to do next.
Use a custom 404 page to reduce customer frustration and link to other pages on your site. Make sure it returns the 404 http status code.
Page Size
71.3 KB (World Wide Web average is 2 Mb)
Two of the main reasons for an increase in page size are images and JavaScript files. Large page size contributes to slow page speeds so try to keep your page size below 2 Mb.
Tip: Use images with a small size and optimize their download with gzip.
Load Time
2.06 second(s) (236.91 kB/s)
Site speed is an important factor for ranking in Google search results. Load time affects not only visitor engagement, retention, and conversion rates, but it can also affect your rankings.
marketingdirecto.com took 2.06 seconds to load at a speed of 236.91 kb per second.
This is too slow and it is likely impacting your search rankings and user experience.
High load times can be caused by a number of things, including pages with poor code optimization (cache, Mysql queries, etc.), server problems, network problems, or third-party issues (advertising codes, analytics codes, etc.).
Site speed is an important factor for ranking high in Google search results.
Check out Google™'s developer tutorials for tips on how to to make your website run faster.
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- Define the language of the content in each page's HTML code.
- Specify the language code in the URL as well (e.g., "mywebsite.com/fr/mycontent.html").
- Use hreflang tags to specify language and country for Google, and the "content-language" meta tag to specify the language and country for Bing.
Structured Data Markup
Get the most out of Google's rich snippets for content types such as: Reviews, People, Products, Businesses and Organizations, Recipes, Events, Videos and Music. If your website covers one of these topics, then we suggest that you annotate it with Schema.org using microdata.
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Email Privacy
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Server IP
Your server's IP address has little impact on your SEO. Nevertheless, try to host your website on a server which is geographically close to your visitors. Search engines take the geolocation of a server into account as well as the server speed.
Use DNSstuff for comprehensive reports on your server.
Get to know the technologies used for your website. Some codes might slow down your website. Ask your webmaster to take a look at this.
Speed Tips
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Perfect, your server is using a caching method to speed up page display.
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Perfect, your website takes advantage of gzip.
Website speed has a huge impact on performance, affecting user experience, conversion rates and even rankings. By reducing page load-times, users are less likely to get distracted and the search engines are more likely to reward you by ranking your pages higher in the SERPs.
Conversion rates are far higher for websites that load faster than their slower competitors.
See Google's PageSpeed Insights Rules for more information on how to improve each of the elements in this section.
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- Register the HTTPS website in Google & Bing Search Console/Webmaster Tools
Crawl Errors
Backlinks Score
Backlinks Counter
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Backlinks are links that point to your website from other websites. They are like letters of recommendation for your site.
Since this factor is crucial to SEO, you should have a strategy to improve the quantity and quality of backlinks.
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Traffic Estimations
This shows your estimated traffic for marketingdirecto.com compared to any competitors you have chosen. We use Alexa for this information.
Traffic Rank
27,918th most visited website in the World
A low rank means that your website gets a lot of visitors.
Your Alexa Rank is a good estimate of the worldwide traffic to marketingdirecto.com, although it is not 100 percent accurate.
Reviewing the most visited websites by country can give you valuable insights.
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Constructing A 2001 Social Accounting Matrix Of Tajikistan
The paper documents constructing a 2001 social accounting matrix for Tajikistan in order to develop a model of the country. As necessary and reliable statistics are difficult to obtain for compiling a social accounting matrix, alternative techniques and approaches have been used to extend, create and calculate the data set. A consistent and balanced 2001 social accounting matrix has been achieved using Kuroda's Method. The constructed 2001 social accounting matrix consists of 74 accounts with 27 commodities accounts, 2 factors of production, 3 institutions, 11 tax accounts, 1 non-tax payments account, 1 subsidies account, 1 capital account and 1 rest of the world account. As construction of a social accounting matrix for Tajikistan has not yet received attention in the literature this paper will fill that gap.
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I enjoy traveling to places such as France and New England. I also love exploring the Northern California Coast. I appreciate remote places with little light and noise pollution, but I equally enjoy holidays in the heart of Manhattan and Paris.
I believe that pics and profiles cannot ultimately determine attraction. Two people must meet to determine whether chemistry exists, which in my mind is a mystery. While there is some basis to profiling, I don't take it too seriously or rigidly.
For those into C.G. Jung, I am clearly an "INFP" according to official Myers-Briggs type indicator tests. I'm almost at the extreme end of "N" and "F", and pretty far end of "P." (That's in addition to the test I took on OKC, on which I also came out as an INFP.)
Sidenote: I do not watch porn. Nothing against it but I don't like the desensitizing impact it has on my brain.
Left-wing. Enjoy Marx, kpfa, radical faeries, feel the Bern 🔥
Now that the democratic primary has been stolen, I'm feeling less optimistic about the future.
I've been super lucky in my career, though I don't define myself by it. I've worked for same company for 17 yrs, in the same basic field for 23. The friends I've made in my career are the most important aspect of it.
I appreciate all sorts of music and theater-- everything from opera to off-off Broadway. My favorite operas are Wagner's Ring cycle and Mozart's Don Giovanni. My musical interests also range from Baroque to what I consider to be "classical" jazz (e.g., Miles Davis). I like nearly everything performed at the Berkeley Rep and Marsh. I love classical organ concerts, and spent six weeks attending many in Paris. I used to play the organ. Johnny Cash! Tom Waits! The Weavers!! Lou Reed!!! Recently I've gotten into Utah Phillips. Fats Waller is my new favorite.
I enjoy told South Park episodes-- laugh out loud funny. I am always up for movies especially independent flicks at places like Roxy and Opera Plaza.
When possible I like to know where my food comes from. Whenever possible I prefer supporting local, organic, small farmers. I appreciate good food and regularly frequent farmers markets. I like trying all sorts of restaurants and cafes in various categories. I'm trying to improve my cooking skills and find myself swearing by my cast iron skillets (I have three. Is that too many?).
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The Charles W. Morgan Homecoming Celebration
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Built in New Bedford in 1841, the Charles W. Morgan is the last wooden whaleship in the world. Its historic Homecoming to New Bedford June 28 - July 6, 2014, will be nothing short of spectacular with nine days of concerts, programs, regattas, whaleboat races and parades, a whaling history symposium, public ceremonies and much more! The Charles W. Morgan will dock at State Pier and will open to the public from 9:00am - 5:00 p.m. $5 suggested admission. Schedule of events for June 29th: 10am - Ecumenical Service at Seamen's Bethel; 12:30 pm - Boat Parade in New Bedford Harbor.
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Express your true self with this cashmere woods eau de parfum created to evoke the quality that shares its name. worn individually, empowered is smoky and magnetic; paired and layered, it brings texture and mystery, creating your unique, signature scent. part of the my philosophy: collection of eau de parfums designed to showcase compositions that sing one fragrance note above all others, beautifully. My Philosophy Empowered was launched in 2015.
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I was gifted a set of all the scents from this "my philosophy" line last Christmas. I didn't appreciate this scent until I started to pair it with the "Compassionate" scent from the line, which is vanilla deliciousness that I adore. Together they are wonderful. The two create a very snowy day scent in my opinion. Makes me think of warm sweaters, boots, and snow.
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Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Educationby Derek Bok
Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from
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Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. He shows how such ventures are undermining core academic values and what universities can do to limit the damage.
Commercialization has many causes, but it could never have grown to its present state had it not been for the recent, rapid growth of money-making opportunities in a more technologically complex, knowledge-based economy. A brave new world has now emerged in which university presidents, enterprising professors, and even administrative staff can all find seductive opportunities to turn specialized knowledge into profit.
Bok argues that universities, faced with these temptations, are jeopardizing their fundamental mission in their eagerness to make money by agreeing to more and more compromises with basic academic values. He discusses the dangers posed by increased secrecy in corporate-funded research, for-profit Internet companies funded by venture capitalists, industry-subsidized educational programs for physicians, conflicts of interest in research on human subjects, and other questionable activities.
While entrepreneurial universities may occasionally succeed in the short term, reasons Bok, only those institutions that vigorously uphold academic values, even at the cost of a few lucrative ventures, will win public trust and retain the respect of faculty and students. Candid, evenhanded, and eminently readable, Universities in the Marketplace will be widely debated by all those concerned with the future of higher education in America and beyond.
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"Provocative and original. . . . Bok is one of the premier elder statesman of American higher education."Stephen B. Sample and Warren Bennis, Los Angeles Times
"Astute and fair-minded. . . . Derek Bok, a sensible man, has written a sensible book about the commercialization of the American university."Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"Contending that the trend toward excessive commercialization is not yet irreversible, Bok offers cogent, urgent arguments for reorienting universities toward fulfilling their unique purpose uncorrupted by the insidious influence of money."USA Today
"Derek Bok begins his new book with [a] nightmare of university avarice and moral decay. Some of the moneymaking schemes are imaginary, but, as Mr. Bok warns, the dangers inherent in the insatiable demands for revenue are not. . . . It is increasingly difficult . . . to meet higher education's insatiable financial demands through conventional means. . . . Mr. Bok notes that commercialization has seeped even into the core educational mission. . . . Having a Derek Bok to remind us of our higher calling and the present dangers may, if his words are heeded, be more consequential than we can imagine."Anthony W. Marx, New York Times
"Raises lots of big, disquieting questions. . . . Universities that blur the lines between their own culture and that of the corporate world endanger their values without substantially raising the value of their endowments. It is, in short, shortsighted. With the publication of this book, the nation's universities can't say they weren't warned."David M. Shribman, Chicago Tribune
"Derek Bok, the former president of Harvard, argues that institutions have, perhaps unwittingly, made Faustian bargains. . . . Athletics provides a cautionary tale. . . . The dangers of corporate-sponsored research are even greater."Glenn C. Altschuler, Barron's
"Bok realizes that there are times when allowing a business to provide funding for research or clothing for an athletic team is critical to a particular college's survival, but the trend of marketing various aspects of higher education is becoming more prevalent. This book is Bok's way of sounding the alarm for universities to analyze their practices critically."Library Journal
"A humane and beautifully crafted book. Bok believes that the intrusion of the marketplace into the university is eroding fundamental academic values, and that we must act now to halt this decline. . . . [A] thoughtful and thought-provoking book."Jeremy Gunawardena,Nature
"This is a good and needed book. . . . Bok strives for balance. He tries to puncture both the dangers to academe raised by its purists and the promises of easy money made by mortarboard Babbitts. He calls for new scrutiny of financial relationships between university researchers and companies. He [worries that] . . . corporate cash, fed slowly but in rising and addictive doses, will become the force behind what is discovered and what is ignored and even suppressed."Ned Barnett, Raleigh News & Observer
"Bok shows that he knows his subject well and that he has done his homework. Moreover, he marshals the relevant facts with an even hand and unsparing candor. . . . One can only hope that his book will help the public understand what is at stake and will generate support for the needed reforms. Derek Bok has sounded a warning that ought to be heeded."Arnold S. Relman, New England Journal of Medicine
"Bok is sensibly, judiciously and presidentially concerned. He puts the commercialization of the university into the same frame as big-time intercollegiate sport: both are unambiguous distractions from what universities are properly supposed to be about."Steven Shapin, London Review of Books
"A thoughtful, clear-eyed inquiry into the impact of commercialization on the university's fundamental missions of education and research."Daniel J. Kevles,American Scientist
"Bok is a retired President of Harvard, who was Dean of Harvard Law School before becoming President, and has been a distinguished professor in the Kennedy School of Government in his retirement. Harvard's endowment is worth something around $20 billion, so Professor Bok's views on money in higher education carry a certain weight. Bok provides a measured account of what goes wrong when too much of what a university does is seen to be up for salebut not so measured that the point is lost or the lesson muffled. . . . Bok's patient attention to useful policies that each university can institute on its ownforbidding coaches to lean on professors for better grades, putting gin place policies about disclosure that commercial sponsors must sign up tois the sort of thing that is needed."Alan Ryan, Times Literary Supplement
"[An] excellent and beautifully written book."Gordon Johnson,Times Higher Education Supplement
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Universities in the MarketplaceThe Commercialization of Higher Education
By Derek Bok
Princeton University PressCopyright © 2003 Derek Bok
All right reserved.
Chapter One
It is one of the unwritten, and commonly unspoken commonplaces lying at the root
of modern academic policy that the various universities are competitors for the
traffic of merchantable instruction in much the same fashion as rival
establishments in the retail trade compete for custom.-Thorstein Veblen,
The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities
by Businessmen (1918)
Toward the end of the twentieth century, American universities-with their stately buildings, tree-lined quadrangles, and slightly disheveled, often-preoccupied professors-found themselves in an enviable position. No longer quiet enclaves removed from the busy world, they had emerged as the nation's chief source for the three ingredients most essential to continued growth and prosperity: highly trained specialists, expert knowledge, and scientific advances others could transform into valuable new products or life-saving treatments and cures.
This newfound importance brought growing interest from the media, increased funding from government agencies and foundations, and closer scrutiny from public officials. It also brought abundant new opportunities to make money. Universities learned that they could sell the right to use their scientific discoveries to industry and find corporations willing to pay a tidy sum to sponsor courses delivered by Internet or cable television. Apparel firms offered money to have colleges place the corporate logo on their athletic uniforms or, conversely, to put the university's name on caps and sweatshirts sold to the public. Faculty members began to bear such titles as Yahoo Professor of Computer Science or K-Mart Professor of Marketing. The University of Tennessee, in a coup of sorts, reportedly sold its school color to a paint company hoping to find customers wishing to share in the magic of the college's football team by daubing their homes with "Tennessee Orange." One enterprising university even succeeded in finding advertisers willing to pay for the right to place their signs above the urinals in its men's rooms.
Commercial practices may have become more obvious, but they are hardly a new phenomenon in American higher education. By the early 1900s, the University of Chicago was already advertising regularly to attract students, and the University of Pennsylvania had established a "Bureau of Publicity" to increase its visibility. In 1905, Harvard was concerned enough about its profitable football team to hire a 26-year-old coach at a salary equal to that of its president and twice the amount paid to its full professors. As President Andrew Draper of the University of Illinois observed, the university "is a business concern as well as a moral and intellectual instrumentality, and if business methods are not applied to its management, it will break down."
What is new about today's commercial practices is not their existence but their unprecedented size and scope. Before 1970, university presidents may have sounded like hucksters on occasion and resorted at times to advertising and other methods borrowed from the world of business. Nevertheless, commercialization in the strict sense of the term-that is, efforts to sell the work of universities for a profit-was largely confined to the periphery of campus life: to athletic programs and, in a few institutions, to correspondence schools and extension programs. Today, opportunities to make money from intellectual work are pursued throughout the university by professors of computer science, biochemistry, corporate finance, and numerous other departments. Entrepreneurship is no longer the exclusive province of athletics departments and development offices; it has taken hold in science faculties, business schools, continuing education divisions, and other academic units across the campus.
What accounts for the growth of commercial activity in institutions dedicated to higher learning? To Veblen, the obvious culprits were university presidents and their entourage of bureaucratic helpers. Intent upon accumulating money to expand the size and reputation of the institution, campus administrators were forever forcing the methods of the marketplace on a reluctant community of scholars. In Veblen's view, the remedy for the disease was as obvious as its cause: "The academic executive and all his works are an anathema and should be discontinued by the simple expedient of wiping him off the slate."
If Veblen harbored any doubts about the reasons for commercialization, he did not acknowledge them. Even in his day, however, it should have been plain that the roots of the problem went beyond the academic bureaucracy. More than a few university presidents protested the growth of football programs, only to be overcome by the tidal force of enthusiastic students and alumni. Today, it is even more apparent that the recent surge in money-making activity on campus stems from causes far deeper than policies emanating from the president. University officials have surely initiated entrepreneurial ventures. But they often have little or nothing to do with the efforts of prominent professors to found their own companies, sell their services as teachers to corporations, or allow private companies to market their lectures through the Internet, tape, or videocassette. Nor is there any doubt that the greatest obstacles to reforming intercollegiate athletics continue to lie, not in the president's office, but among the alumni supporters, boosters, legislators, and others who insist on fielding winning teams.
If Veblen was wrong in heaping so much blame on university presidents, what else helps account for the recent burst of commercial activity on campus? Part of the explanation lies in the growing influence of the market throughout our society. Commercialization has plainly taken root, not only in higher education, but also in many other areas of American life and culture: health care, museums, public schools, even religion. Entrepreneurial initiative, high executive salaries, and aggressive marketing techniques are all spreading to fields of endeavor quite outside the realm of business. Such practices set examples that legitimate the use of similar methods in universities. Nevertheless, merely noting the existence of a trend does not explain why it came about, let alone account for its sudden and deep penetration into an academic culture long considered an "ivory tower" set apart from the marketplace.
Several scholars have attributed the recent growth of money-making activity to a lack of purpose in the university. Having lost sight of any clear mission beyond a vague commitment to "excellence," our sprawling multiversities are charged with creating a vacuum into which material pursuits have rushed in unimpeded. Explanations of this kind almost invariably come from philosophers, literary scholars, and other humanists. Although they talk expansively about the university, their background is chiefly in the humanities. Since these are the fields of study most widely accused of having lost their intellectual moorings, it is not surprising that their professors see a similar aimlessness as the cause of other ills that have overtaken the academy.
If one looks more broadly at the university, however, one quickly finds that many faculties and departments are quite clear about their purposes and that these are the very parts of the institution in which commercialization is most rampant. Within the traditional disciplines, no faculty members feel a stronger sense of mission than the scientists, yet it is there-not in the humanities-that commercialization has taken hold most firmly. Among the several faculties, none has a clearer sense of purpose than schools of business and medicine, yet it is their professors-not their colleagues in literature and philosophy-who are most deeply involved in lucrative consulting and entrepreneurial activity.
If there is an intellectual confusion in the academy that encourages commercialization, it is a confusion over means rather than ends. To keep profit-seeking within reasonable bounds, a university must have a clear sense of the values needed to pursue its goals with a high degree of quality and integrity. When the values become blurred and begin to lose their hold, the urge to make money quickly spreads throughout the institution. Just what these values are and how they are threatened by commercial pursuits are subjects discussed in subsequent chapters. For the moment, it is enough to say that loss of purpose is not a useful explanation for the recent growth of money-making ventures in the university.
Critics from the left have a different theory to explain the burgeoning commercial activity on campus. To them, such behavior is simply another illustration of the attempts by the businessmen and lawyers who sit on boards of trustees to "commodify" education and research, reduce the faculty to the status of employees, and ultimately, make the university serve the interests of corporate America.
The influence of the private economy on the university is undeniable. Wealthy donors clearly alter the shape of the institution through the power of their benefactions. Anyone harboring doubts on this score need only contrast the opulence of business schools with the shabbiness of most schools of education and social work. The world of commerce and industry affects the curriculum in even more striking ways through the jobs it provides and the salaries it offers; witness the growth of undergraduate business majors, the rise of computer science departments, and the generous compensation offered to professors of management and economics, compared to that paid to colleagues in literature and philosophy.
It is one thing, however, to note the effects of the economy on academic institutions and quite another to imagine a plot on the part of business leaders to bend universities to their corporate purposes. It is true that toward the end of the nineteenth century, as American colleges transformed themselves into large research institutions, clergymen began to give way to business executives and lawyers on most university boards. Still, ascribing this trend to some sort of national corporate plot seems rather farfetched; there is a more benign explanation. As institutions of higher learning grew larger and more complicated, they needed trustees who could help them raise money and develop better methods of administration. Clergymen were poorly equipped for these tasks and were increasingly out of step, in any case, with faculties that were steadily becoming more secular and professional. Business executives and corporate lawyers simply seemed better suited to the changing needs of the university.
In the early years, some business-oriented trustees did try to impose their views on the institution, even to the point of firing faculty members with radical opinions. But professors soon organized to protest such interference. Eventually, board members had to modify their behavior and defer to scholarly judgments in academic matters or risk doing harm to the reputation of their university. Long before the recent wave of commercialization, therefore, trustees of major universities had become far less intrusive. By the 1960s, they were serving, as they do now, largely out of loyalty to their alma mater or from a sense of civic duty, rarely interfering with academic decisions except where necessary to guard the financial health of the institution. Today, if trustees encourage commercial ventures, they are far more likely to do so in order to find resources for the university's needs rather than to promote the selfish interests of American business.
Professors of higher education offer a different explanation for the growth of commercial activity on campus. In their view, the recent wave of entrepreneurial behavior is a response to the reductions in government support for higher education that began in the 1970s. As the economy slowed after the energy crisis of 1973, Congress could no longer sustain the rapid increases in research funding that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s. State legislatures, burdened by the mounting costs of prisons, welfare, and health care for the indigent, followed suit and cut their appropriations for higher education, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. The result, according to this theory, was to force university officials and faculty members to look for new sources of funding. Eventually, enterprising presidents and entrepreneurial professors found ways to market their specialized knowledge and scientific discoveries in return for the cash they needed to make up for declining state support.
Government cutbacks may well be the precipitating cause that has led a number of universities in Britain, Australia, Scandinavia, and Holland to become more entrepreneurial. In the United States, however, funding cuts are not the whole story. After all, the past two decades are hardly the first time that American higher education has experienced financial difficulties. Government funding slowed or declined in the early 1970s, not to mention the 1930s, yet universities did not respond with a burst of profit-seeking ventures.
Moreover, private universities in America have been no less entrepreneurial than their public counterparts even though few of them have had much state funding to lose, and most have seen their endowments surge during the heady stock market booms of the 1980s and 1990s. Basic biomedical scientists have been among the more enterprising in the academy, notwithstanding continued real increases in research support from the National Institutes of Health. Business schools and their faculties have pursued new money-making ventures with notable zeal despite having suffered few, if any, of the financial cutbacks that have beset other parts of the university. In short, declining appropriations may have played a part, but something more is surely required to explain the rise of entrepreneurial activity on American campuses during the last twenty years.
Universities share one characteristic with compulsive gamblers and exiled royalty: there is never enough money to satisfy their desires. Faculty and students are forever developing new interests and ambitions, most of which cost money. The prices of books and journals rise relentlessly. Better and more costly technology and scientific apparatus constantly appear and must be acquired to stay at the cutting edge. Presidents and deans are anxious to satisfy as many of these needs as they can, for their reputation depends on pleasing the faculty, preserving the standing of the institution, and building a legacy through the development of new programs.
Excerpted from Universities in the Marketplace by Derek Bok Copyright © 2003 by Derek Bok
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|10 Ounce (1 Box)
|15 Ounce (1 Box)
|4 Ounce, chopped
|Candied cherries
|3 1⁄2 Ounce, candied
|Canned walnuts
|8 Ounce, chopped (1 Can)
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|All purpose flour
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Ground nutmeg
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Ground cinnamon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1 Cup (16 tbs), softened
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Apricot preserves
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs), strained
|Almond paste
|8 Ounce (1 Can)
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
1. Prepare a 9-by-3-inch springform pan.
2. In a large bowl, toss currants, raisins, citron, cherries and walnuts with 1/2 cup brandy until well mixed.
3. Preheat oven to 275°F. Sift together flour, nutmeg and cinnamon; set aside.
4. In large bowl, with electric mixer at medium speed, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition; beat until very light and fluffy.
5. At low speed, beat in flour mixture (in fourths) alternately with remaining 1/2 cup brandy (in thirds), beginning and ending with flour mixture.
6. Pour batter over fruit mixture; mix until well combined. Turn into prepared pan.
7. On low rack in oven, bake 2 1/2 to 3 hours, or until cake tester inserted near center comes out clean.
8. Cool cake completely in pan on wire rack. Remove from pan, and peel off paper. Wrap fruitcake in brandy-soaked cheesecloth, then in foil; store for several weeks. (Resoak the cheesecloth in brandy several times, as necessary.)
9. Before serving: Brush top of cake with apricot preserves. Roll almond paste between two sheets of waxed paper into a 9-inch circle. Remove top sheet of paper. Invert paste onto cake; remove paper. With sharp knife, trim edge of paste; then press paste to cake.
10. Make Royal Icing. With spatula, spread an even layer smoothly on top and side of cake. Fill pastry bag with icing, using number-1 writing tip. Pipe diagonal lines 1/2 inch apart all around the cake. Then starting at the top of each line, pipe another line diagonally in other direction to form diamonds.
11. For top and bottom edge:Fill pastry bag with icing, using number-4 star tip. Pipe rosettes all around the bottom. Using the same pastry bag, make niching around top edge of cake.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 9730 Calories from Fat 3823
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 446 g685.9%
Saturated Fat 149.9 g749.7%
Trans Fat 7.2 g
Cholesterol 1541.2 mg513.7%
Sodium 732 mg30.5%
Total Carbohydrates 1259 g419.8%
Dietary Fiber 65.8 g263.1%
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Protein 132 g264.4%
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Calcium 121.2% Iron 212.6%
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BETHESDA, MD 16 Dec 2015—FDA on December 15 announced the approval of sugammadex, or Bridion, for reversal of the neuromuscular blockade induced by rocuronium or vecuronium in adults who received either neuromuscular blocking agent (NMBA) during surgery.
Sugammadex, its labeling (PDF) states, is a cyclodextrin that forms a complex with rocuronium or vecuronium. Formation of this complex reduces the amount of rocuronium or vecuronium that can bind to nicotinic cholinergic receptors in the neuromuscular junction.
The labeling for sugammadex recommends a single 2- or 4-mg/kg bolus injection of the reversal agent, with the timing and dose dependent on the patient's response to train-of-four stimulation.
A 16-mg/kg bolus injection is an option only if the patient received a single 1.2-mg/kg dose of rocuronium and the clinical need for reversal of neuromuscular blockade arises within about three minutes after administration of the NMBA.
All recommended doses of sugammadex are based on actual body weight, the labeling states.
The three controlled clinical studies described in the labeling for sugammadex involved adults, mostly white, who underwent elective surgical procedures under general anesthesia.
There is a statement in the labeling declaring that the drug has not been studied for neuromuscular blockade reversal after administration of rocuronium or vecuronium in the intensive care unit.
There are also statements in the labeling telling healthcare providers not to use sugammadex to reverse the blockade induced by nonsteroidal NMBAs, such as succinylcholine, or by steroidal NMBAs other than rocuronium or vecuronium.
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FDA said the most common adverse reactions to sugammadex in the clinical studies were vomiting, hypotension, pain, headache, and nausea.
Potentially serious hypersensitivity reactions, such as anaphylaxis, have occurred in sugammadex-treated patients, the labeling states. Known hypersensitivity to sugammadex is a contraindication to use of the drug.
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In one of their craziest scouting experiences, the Minnesota Twins have reached a deal with a 24-year-old pitching prospect who has thrown 100 mile per hour fastballs but has never been drafted.
Brandon Poulson was pitching earlier this month for the Healdsburg Prune Packers in a collegiate summer league. His manager was Joey Gomes, the brother of big leaguer Jonny Gomes.
Now, the Twins are about to give him $250,000.
"It's a great story," Twins West Coast scouting supervisor Sean Johnson said Tuesday. "This kid came out of nowhere."
The Twins knew about Poulson from his recent season with Academy of Art University, where he had an 8.38 ERA for the San Francisco school.
Poulson played there after taking a couple of years off to work in his father's business — "John's Excavating" — with the thought he'd take it over someday and leave athletics behind for good.
The 6-foot-6 right-hander previously played baseball, but chose football at Santa Rosa Junior College. The Twins think Poulson's story could make a great movie.
"I played for the Prune Packers summer of '13, but missed nearly three-fourths of the games because I was busy working," said Poulson, who didn't make his high school baseball team as a freshman.
The Twins are giving him about 10 times more than an undrafted player would typically receive as a bonus. Poulson will begin as a reliever.
Poulson traveled to Minneapolis last week to undergo a physical at Target Field before returning to Northern California, then was cleared Tuesday. He is set to travel Wednesday to the Twins' rookie club in the Appalachian League in Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Poulson will sign his contract once he reports. He could pitch in a game as soon as this weekend.
Until last fall, Poulson was operating heavy machinery — driving 18-wheelers, front-loaders and backhoes. All the while, he played baseball in a Sunday night men's league, fittingly called the "Wine Country" league.
"I went to work with my father and didn't want to gamble with sports anymore," Poulson said.
He later changed his mind and decided to give baseball one last chance, spending months retooling his delivery with Prune Packers pitching coach Caleb Balbuena.
Poulson's stats this summer: 31 strikeouts and six hits in 12 1-3 innings, with four saves in 12 appearances.
The Twins consider him among the best athletes they have pursued: A health nut, Poulson weighs 240 pounds and ran a 6.6-second 60-yard dash. He has a 40-inch vertical leap.
The San Francisco Giants wanted to sign Poulson, who also drew interest the Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners and Philadelphia Phillies. Those teams didn't have enough money remaining in their draft pool to match Minnesota.
"He's a physical specimen. He's got the best pure arm strength I've ever seen," Twins scout Elliott Strankman said.
Strankman is the only member of the organization who watched Poulson pitch. It took all of 18 throws to convince him.
"We're cautiously optimistic because we don't want to put a bunch of pressure on the kid. He could be pretty good. This is uncharted territory for us," he said.
At Academy of Art's scout day, only the position players were running 60-yard dashes until Poulson turned up and insisted on sprinting. He hadn't warmed up and was wearing only socks.
"I had cold legs," he said. "Maybe I would have run it faster."
Strankman went to see him pitch for the Prune Packers on July 15. Poulson reached agreement on a contract two days later.
This week, Poulson is headed for the minor leagues.
"I'm excited," he said. "I know it's just the first step of what the real goal is to make it in the bigs."
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