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Bird suggests relaxing the lockstep that forces millions of young people to march automatically to school year after year, from kindergarten to graduate school. She notes that top educators have already called for alternatives to the traditional college education. Yale President Kingman Brewster, for example, has warned against the "assumption that formal education is best received in continuous doses," while proposing that students leave the campus after their sophomore year to live abroad. Chicago Sociologist James Coleman's White House report on youth suggests giving vouchers worth four years of college tuition to young people; the vouchers could...
...February 7 Yale had achieved $97 million of the five-year goal of $370 million announced last April by Yale President Kingman Brewster. Yale began the drive with a fund of more than $60 million...
...assume that if we can get $97 million in a depressed market, we will make more progress as the economy reverses. As we reach the point where it is clear we'll make it. Kingman indicates he'll be ready to pass the baton," Miller said. He added that Brewster has not explicitly stated the point at which he will consider the campaign successful...
Miller and several members of the Yale Corporation said this week that many wealthy Yale alumni have become upset with Brewster and Yale in recent years as a result of student demonstrations and changes in the Yale admissions policies...
...Andelor Belin, Radcliffe's lawyer and president of Yale's alumni University Council, said yesterday that although there is "much evidence" that some of these alumni are "coming back in the fold," many will not be inclined to give heavily to Yale until Brewster retires...