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...semester, the visiting freshmen from Tulane University are not asking Harvard to compromise its standards or cross any ethical boundaries. Instead, we are seeking the reasonable treatment of a complex issue. The immediately obvious objection to allowing us to submit transfer applications is that our transferring would violate an agreement with Tulane to return all visiting students and that such an application is prohibited under Harvard’s visiting student policy...
...reality, there is no agreement between Harvard and Tulane that all the visiting students will return. My father has been in contact with Scott Cowen, the President of Tulane, both through e-mail and in person, concerning such an agreement and, if it even existed, asking for my release from it. Cowen definitively stated that I am “free to withdraw from Tulane at any time and pursue [my] education wherever [I] desire[].” This recognizes the right of students to make their own academic choices and seek admission to the schools that they feel best...
...Bosnia and Iraq, Cole said that, to her knowledge, HCL has not made a donation like this before. University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby approved a recommendation to make the gift in early summer 2004, Cole said. She added that the final agreement was signed in November 2004, and the books were shipped over this summer. Sun Yat-sen paid for packing and shipping of the material from Boston to China, Cheng said...
...expecting its visiting students from Tulane University, who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina, to return to New Orleans for the spring semester, Yale College Dean’s office announced last Thursday. According to Yale College Assistant Dean William T. Whobrey, the decision was made in accordance with an agreement created this fall between Yale and the 10 visiting students. “There was always an implicit understanding that when Tulane was ready to take its students back, the offer of admission at Yale and other universities was temporary,” Whobrey said. “Our policy...
...conflicting interests are playing out across the river, as the administration at Harvard Business School (HBS) is considering making it optional for HBS students to release their grades to employers. The current policy is that no grades are released. This policy, enacted in 1998, represents joint administrative and student agreement, as HBS’s administration could not enforce the no-release policy without the willing participation of students as well. After seven years, this policy deserves to be reversed in order to incentivize academic excellence.The no-release policy was originally enacted to reduce competition among students and promote cooperation...