I've heard similar comments from other people regarding football players being steered to less rigorous majors. Not at NU but certainly other Big Tens schools. I wonder if the kid that de-committed NU to go to Oklahoma for Petroleum Enginnering ever even got close to that degree?
Florida State has a great relationship with the Seminole tribe. They should be the standard on how a University can properly honor a school mascot of Native American heritage
Most of them have big egos and they love the press.
But maybe some free usage, Customer advisory board, or the ability to be a Beta tester is usually enough
Find your most passionate end users first.
They will have 10X the credibility of the vendor. Start with success stories...videos, presentations, blogs and try to coax a community to start interacting
I was in that class. Joe copied my notes when gone on away games. What pissed me off is he got a better grade than I did with my own notes.
Smart guy. He was also a very good guy.