Thanks to Evil HR Lady and the TaxProf Blog for pointing out this interesting tidbit in The New York Times about how New York University poached a law professor from Columbia University by buying her a $4.2-million condominium. How’s that for a good recruiting technique?
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9 Responses to Recruiting 101
Rebecca Ryan Samuelson - December 15, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Great article! Thanks for coming by, looking forward to seeing what you come up with for VT.
Brian Mathews - December 16, 2011 at 9:32 am
I’d greatly welcome your continued feedback
laurabrarian - December 16, 2011 at 10:01 am
I love the idea of “Collision Spaces” — “for serendipitous conversation and discovery” — creating an environment for informal networking. We hope that our library’s “Main Street” (a central walk-through for most of campus) and two cafes function this way.
karenkinney - December 16, 2011 at 5:42 pm
I work at in a small library at an architecture school. Recently the student council voted to put ping pong, pool, and foosball tables in the “student lounge,” which is across the hall from the library. The noise generated has been very disruptive not only to life in the library but to nearby classrooms. I’m not convinced that these games are enhancing anyone’s productivity, maybe the students’ eye-hand coordination.
mjpaulus - December 16, 2011 at 8:18 pm
You may have
already seen this, but I was intrigued with this ccollaborative work
space: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/inventing_the_collaborative_workspace.html.
Gabriel Sistare - January 4, 2012 at 9:23 am
Brian,
There is a lot of potential for co-working projects to stimulate entrepreneurship and networking. Libraries can do a lot though to simulate the co-working model in public or academic spaces. It might be easier for membership co-working programs to gain ground faster than a public project, but the open access already available in libraries creates no barrier to entry–all that’s needed is appropriate public or university funding and the resolve to want to continue to see libraries as the nexus of idea and project creation.
I’ll be excited to see which projects you cover and if there is the potential for them to be public (free, or tax-supported) spaces.
tolleystokes - January 11, 2012 at 10:13 am
This “coworking” model has intrigued me for a long time. Po Bronson referenced his work space, the Grotto, in “What Should I Do With My Life?” and you can find more information about how such spaces operate by googling coworking and studying each site’s webpage,etc.
stephenfrancoeur - January 24, 2012 at 12:59 pm
The new book by Jonah Lehrer, Imagine, features a description of a building at MIT that was the source of all sorts of productive collisions between different kinds of researchers. You can read an excerpt of that section of the book in the 30 January 2012 issue of the New Yorker.
Sara Harris Thum - February 9, 2012 at 11:53 am
*LOVE* that the “relaxation” space is a ping pong table…even though the Wii/Playstation/XBox eventually became just as necessary as the books themselves, when it first went in at NCSU’s Learning Commons, people were critical. OK, *I* was critical. Ping pong just seems to encourage a meditation that nurtures productivity… Take a break from your computer or even Angry Birds on your smartphone and rest your senses.