Word: broadened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...five-year capital campaign focusing on the College, hoping to bring in $250 million. The campaign was wildly successful, reaching its goal in three years and prompting Bok and then-FAS Dean Henry Rosovsky to raise the target to $350 million. According to Bok, the chance to broaden financial aid convinced alumni that it was fair to raise the amount solicited mid-stream. “The argument that really convinced them was the idea that there had been lots of inflation and we had to have a lot of money to ensure that no deserving student with the proper...
...hope is to really broaden the base of undergraduates who consider a future career in business,” said Andrea L. Kimmel, who directs the program...
...students from lower income brackets, as early admissions programs tend to “advantage the advantaged” who have access to guidance that might motivate them to apply early to a school. With the increased time available for recruiting high school students, the admissions office hopes to broaden the Harvard applicant pool by reaching out to schools in low-income areas, Fitzsimmons said. Another goal of eliminating the early admissions programs is to push the application process later into the senior year and extend the high school experience, he said. However, institutions must consider both what...
...know who will succeed him, but throughout history, acts of terror have proven useful rationales to seize or hold on to power. The apartment bombings of 1999 helped make Putin president. A seizure of a school by terrorists in the city of Beslan in September 2004 let him broaden his hold authoritarian grip on the state. Last night's train bombing may prove a precursor to a similar grab, as Russia elites gear up for the coming political season...
Among the reforms Unger, who declined to comment for this story, has proposed in the past are the levying of a value-added tax on purchases to broaden the nation’s tax base, making education and employment legal rights, and creating a governmental agency devoted to destabilizing entrenched interests...