Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frank's colleague in the House, Connecticut's Maloney, suggested that Harvard degrees attract less notice in the East than they do in other parts of the country...
...addition, other state schools can use the lever of a full scholarship or low tuition to attract students from their home state. Still, Hoxby says, graduates from these schools would see their education as no bargain--over their careers, tier-three graduates will make a total of about $400,000 less than tier one graduates...
...true that the sort of duties that the Key performs does attract a particular type of personality. Admittedly, there will never be too many sardonic introverts who want to spend their time organizing dance parties for first-years. But, glad-handing IOP jocks are not the only ones capable of putting on a positive face and selling Harvard. In fact, the college would do far better in reaching the variety of people interested in the school by presenting a more varied and rich public facade. Aggressive charisma is not the only kind of charisma, and Harvard's reputation might fare...
...hope it can happen. A new campus across the river would be great for Harvard. And, arguably, the business it would attract would be good for Allston too. But in the end it may turn out that the people of Allston don't want a Harvard outpost plunked down in their midst. If so, there are far less obtrusive uses to which Harvard can put its land--storage space, office space, new labs--and any of these would be preferable to assuring decades of animosity by building a new campus in a community that doesn't want...
...such a young age? Because of a growing recognition that colleges need to reach out if they are to attract the best and brightest applicants from an increasingly diverse population, and because parents are more anxious than ever about their children's prospects for higher education, "tracking"--or predetermining kids' educational and career paths--has become the latest strategy in the college-admissions game. "Kids need to hear the message that anyone can go to college and need to know how to make that possible," says Diana Phillips, director of the U.S. Department of Education's middle school initiative, Think...