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...some of its millions in debt, Morris Brown announced, it would have to close for the spring and possibly forever. Luckily, alumni stepped up to the plate: their contributions at two rallies in December and January - including $100 in quarters, donated by the 13-year-old son of an alumna - supplied the first $100,000 to start paying down the water bill, allowing the school to reopen this semester. (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years...
...economist—who took her first step on American soil when she arrived at Harvard in the early 1970s—through three decades on the upper echelon of global economics. And as a top official at the World Bank in this time of economic duress, the Harvard alumna with a reputation for her focus and passion is now working harder than ever...
...Roughly 2.3 million public school teachers in the U.S. have tenure - a perk reserved for the noblest of professions (professors and judges also enjoy such rights). The problem with tenure, Rhee and other critics say, is that it inadvertently protects incompetent teachers from being fired. The Teach for America alumna, who oversees some 50,000 students and 5,000 teachers, has sparked controversy in the capital by proposing a new contract allowing teachers to earn as much as $130,000 a year if they forgo their tenure rights (a teacher's salary, on average, is less than $48,000; most...
...justice and a bike auction that raised $3,200, according to Susan C. Collings, PBHA’s director of development. PBHA-A’s Saturday night award dinner in the Taubman Building honored Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa E. Brooks ’91 as The Outstanding Alumna. Brooks said she felt at home at PBHA and spoke of the opportunity presented to current activist students. “This is one of those rare chances when you won’t get stomped on, and you will actually get listened to because all the grown-ups said...
...controversy has broken out in Washington State, as a Harvard alumna running for Congress has been accused of exaggerating her academic credentials in the closing days of the campaign...