Moshe Y. Vardi:
Rice-Baylor College of Medicine Merger
This page contains information on the proposed
merger between Rice
University and Baylor
College of Medicine.
Financial information on Rice University
Financial information Baylor College of Medicine
-
BCM Charter
- BCM, Financial Statements
- BCM's June 2009 Financial Statement
- BCM's June 2009 Audited Financial Statement
- BCM
2010 1st Quarter Financial Statement, Nov. 16, 2009
- BCM's June 2010 Audited Financial Statement
- BCM
in technical default, I
- BCM in
technical default, II
- BCM's Default Notice
- BCM's Debt Downgraded, Sept. 22, 2009
- BCM Bond Insurance Cancelled, Oct. 26, 2009,
but see explanation.
Articles of interest on BCM and its recent history
Official Rice Announcements
Articles of interest on Rice’s recent history
- Report of the committee on the launching of
the University & Main building (now called BRC), May 1, 2003
- Houston Chronicle:
Baylor Med School, Rice University discuss merger, Oct. 30, 2008
- Houston Chronicle:
Promising pairing, Nov. 12, 2008
- Houston Chronicle:
Eyes on the prize, Nov. 17, 2008
- Houston Chronicle:
BMC President to be fired, Nov. 18, 2008
- Houston Chronicle:
BMC President fired, Nov. 20, 2008
- Houston Chronicle:
TCH joins merger talks, Dec. 20, 2008
- Houston Chronicle:
Rice, Baylor, far from deal, June 14, 2009
- Houston Chronicle:
Professors don't like merger, Sept. 23, 2009
- Houston Chronicle:
Rice-Baylor merger could be done by January, Sept. 25, 2009
- Rice Thresher:
Concerns voiced over BCM merger, Oct. 2, 2009
- Houston Chronicle:
Texas Universities feel recession's bite, Oct. 5, 2009
- Houston Chronicle:
Baylor would dwarf Rice, Oct. 26, 2009
- Houston Chronicle:
Rice, Baylor closer to deal, Nov. 11, 2009
- Rice Thresher: Rice-BCM -
Inside the Merger, Nov. 20, 2009
- Inside Higher Ed: Rice at a
Crossoads, Dec. 14, 2009
- Houston Chronicle:
Rice Faculty divided over merger, Dec. 15, 2009
- Houston Chronicle:
Budget Cuts Likely at Rice, Dec. 20, 2009
- Science:
Plan to Merge Texas Schools Runs Into Faculty Opposition, Jan. 8,
2010
Actions by the Rice faculty and Rice senate
- Special
Faculty Meeting, April 23, 2009
- Final Resolution for Special Faculty Meeting,
April 23, 2009
- Faculty Senate Meeting,
November 18, 2009
- Special Faculty Meeting,
December 10, 2009
- Statement by Vardi, Special Faculty Meeting,
December 10, 2009
Studies by Rice administration committees
Studies by Rice faculty committees and individual
faculty members
- Interim
Report of Faculty Merger-Review Committee, Oct. 12, 2009
- Moshe Vardi’s public Lecture - A Personal Perspective
on the Rice-BCM Merger, Oct. 26, 2009,
- slides
of the lecture (pdf);
- video
of the lecture
- response by
Carol Quillen
- Moshe Vardi’s
response to Carol Quillen
- Effect
of medical schools on engineering schools, by Matteo Pasquali, Nov. 9,
2009
- Analysis
of benefits of medical schools, Dec. 2, 2009
- Analysis
of worst-case analysis, by Rob Raphael, Dec. 10, 2009
-
Rice-BCM: To Merge or Not To Merge?, Dec. 28, 2009
Surveys of Rice faculty opinion
Opinion letters (including letters to the media)
- Advice
to President Leebron, Nov. 25, 2008
- Letter
to Carol Quillen and James Coleman, Jan. 23, 2009
- Letter
to Board, March 11, 2009
- Letter
from Siberia, Aug. 26, 2009
- Concerns
Voiced over BCM Merger, Oct. 2, 2009
-
An Artistic Opinion, by Chris Bronk and the students of COMP
301, Oct. 4, 2009
-
Rice-Baylor merger would help Houston and Texas, Nov. 13, 2009
- Thresher
Point-Counterpoint, Leebron vs
Vardi, Nov. 20, 2009
- Response
by Vikas Mittal
-
Baylor merger is risky for Rice, Nov. 28, 2009
-
Merger is worth risk, Dec. 2, 2009
General articles on US universities and medical
schools
Other resources and information
