Princeton University BSE - my Engineering degree allowed for many electives.

                I particularly enjoyed psychology courses.

Stanford University MBA - including course work under psychologist Richard Atkinson who                  became head of all Univ. of California schools.

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Van's residence is in Mill Valley CA.

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14 years in California public school districts as Business Manager, in Los Altos, Sunnyvale, and Half Moon Bay.

      Other job positions:

IBM Corporation computer salesman and systems engineer

Assistant to Vice President at Scott Foresman (textbook publisher)

Management consultant with Hayes and Associates (ACME firm in Chicago)

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Author of a History outline and a high school Economics text that has received favorable comments from Milton Friedman (Nobel Laureate, conservative) and John Kenneth Galbraith (prominent liberal). A text revision included the logic behind the Federal Reserve's change from a target inflation of 0% to 2% for the USA. Sloan's correspondence with Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan arguing for the 2% likely influenced the Fed's change. The new Fed chairman has kept the 2% target. See http://econ.4mg.com/preface.htm for more on how Sloan's book got others to react.

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Developed in 2004 the first valid US state IQ data, which became hugely popular during that year's Presidential election.

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Researcher and presenter on Traits That Lead To Success - for 2500 students in California, New York, and Pennsylvania (at all socio-economic levels). Results featured in SELF magazine September 2000

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Speaker at conferences: June 2000 Fourth International Self-Esteem conference "Preparing Youth for the 21st Century," Western Association for College Admission Counseling, Association of California School Administrators, service clubs (Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions)

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Other Internet sites developed by Sloan  

World Leadership Centers (http://wlc.8m.net) - an analysis of world history, reviewed by the Chairman of Stanford's history department

Education for a Democracy (http://sq.4mg.com/dropouts.htm) Recommendations for more relevant high schools

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The Princeton Alumni Weekly (January 26, 2005) reports at the bottom of page 84 

"I am told by Van Sloan that 30,000 people a day read his web pages on IQ, economics, or travel." 

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Van has traveled worldwide continuously for 10 years from 2006 - 2016.  He stayed in over 50 countries and took many photos, now at https://vansloan.shutterfly.com/

Go to:  Sloan's top 50 World's Best Cities/ Travel Destinations

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Sloan's ideas about oil that can help the world:

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Van is interested in what leads to success for individuals and for nations. 

From his travels and other experiences, he develops original ideas to improve things, such as a United Nations oil export tax to raise funds for education in poor countries.  A similar 2019 thought by Van related to oil is:

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I just finished seeing Victory At Sea again - a sad, thought provoking period in history.   It made me think that there must be better ways to resolve conflicts among nations.  Shortly after the Victory, the United Nations was formed.  One of its early actions was to oppose North Korean aggression, but that still involved much loss of life.  

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More recently, President Kennedy's embargo of missiles into Cuba worked without fighting or casualties.  The UN was not a participant. This leads me to suggest that in imminent war situations, the US should consider the blockade of a key war material:  oil, crude or refined.   Ships, warplanes, tanks, and other military vehicles can't go very far without refueling.  Most countries import oil through a seaport in their own or nearby country.  Other nations which have excess oil are similarly vulnerable because of  their need to get cash for filling oil tankers at a seaport.  In both cases, the US could take possession of an oil tanker that was supporting a war and resell it and its contents to a friendly nation.  The US could send any proceeds above its capture costs to worthwhile UN programs - maybe for war refugees?

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One can imagine that a belligerent country might reduce civilian access to gasoline to supply more to its military.  But that would only devastate their economy and enrage its citizens.   The military could not benefit much from electric driven vehicles.  However, the country might switch much to electric power and thereby improve its air pollution noticeably.   Environmentalists worldwide would applaud such a change in China and India.

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Reactions to the above from Sloan's contacts include:

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Van

Very well thought out. 

We should save you a seat in the Pentagon!

Bob

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Interesting idea Van.  This would stop wars, but such a simple solution will always be unpopular until it is too late.

Happy New year and continue it with perfect 20-20 vision.

Bill

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Hi Van,

Yes, limiting access to oil is definitely a sound strategy.
That is what our embargo on North Korea and Iran is doing at the moment, unfortunately with limited success.

Rick

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BBC news article on August 14, 2020 shows that USA is actively following this strategy:

US seizes millions of dollars of Iranian fuel bound for Venezuela

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