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...American College Testing program (ACT), the organization that administers the MCAT, wrote to medical schools in May to inform them that ACT had made an "equating error" in scoring the April MCATs, and that approximately 90 per cent of the students tested received scores that were slightly low. Apparently, ACT's error will not affect the admissions process. According to Charles Sentress, coordinator of public affairs for ACT, medical schools should receive corrected test scores some time this week. Since most students who took the April MCATs are applying for admission to the class that matriculates...
Seventy-eight per cent of the College's student body made it onto the dean's list--defined as standing in academic Groups I, II or III--last year. That figure compares to a 20-per-cent average in the '20s, and a 26-per-cent mean for the '30s. Officials attributed the rise to more liberal grading policies and increased competition, rather than any marked increase in undergraduate brainpower...
...plans--each designed to aid the financially burdened but woefully underassisted middle-income family--have sparked controversy. Although most Congressmen agree about the ends, they cannot achieve a consensus on the means to this end. The first proposal, the tuition tax credit program, envisions a 25-per-cent tax credit on tuition for all families with children attending college, regardless of economic status. The plan, passed by the House on June 1 by a vote of 237 to 158, faces strong opposition from almost every institution of higher learning in the country, including Harvard, because, Cottington says, it gives money...
Gibson elaborates on Harvard's opposition to the tax credits proposal, saying, "Tax credit money goes to the wrong people--38 per cent of the money will go to families with incomes over $30,000." Although tax credit supporters cite the administrative simplicity of the plan--taxpayers can claim the benefit by answering a few questions on their tax forms--Cottington says the Internal Revenue Service would have to develop a complex bureaucracy to monitor the program that will duplicate the functions of existing financial aid bureaucracies...
Perhaps the most pressing research-related problem is overhead recovery of operating expenses universities must dole out in order to conduct federal research projects. Recent decisions by President Carter--including an 11 per cent increase for 1979 in basic research funds for universities and the proposed formation of a separate Department of Education--make research costs all the more important. There are two kinds of research expenses--direct and indirect. Direct expenses include those which provide for lab instruments, technicians and other specifically earmarked items. Both the government and Harvard agree that these costs should be covered by the group...