Influence of Educational Institutions on the IFT Presidency

摘要

The Institute of Food Technologists, in the 65 years of its existence, has gained a deserved reputation for the geographic diversity of its presidents. In an effort to see which educational institutions have produced the most IFT presidents, I assigned numerical values to the presidents' academic degrees. I gave one point for each degree, as designated in the tables by the superscripts b, m, and d, for bachelor's, master's, and doctorate, respectively. Admittedly, this is an arbitrary classification, since there are many other forms of education.