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There are reforms for which the administration should be commended this year—joining the Workers’ Rights Consortium, conceding the need for compensation caps and reducing the contributions required of students from low-income families...
...administrators suspended all three Faculty decisions, keeping the Harvard-MIT consortium alive. Since 1995, however, the University has not directly provided the money for students who cross-register in MIT’s ROTC program, instead allowing a few anonymous philanthropists to donate the funds needed to keep the arrangement going...
...will not be forced to repeat the same grade more than twice in elementary school, but those whose test scores fall below a certain level will be required to take remedial courses. The new policy is bolstered by an independent study--due for release April 6--conducted by the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. According to a school-board summary of its findings, which was leaked to the Chicago Sun-Times, the test scores of third-graders who were held back showed "no appreciable increase," while those of held-back sixth-graders were more likely...
...only 39 tenured female professors in the humanities at Harvard. She has done pioneering work in race, class, and gender theory and has been a powerful force of change in College curriculum: she helped implement the inception of the Women’s Studies concentration, and founded the Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies...
...Mahathir who headed one of the then leader's pet projects, the Perwaja Steel Works. Abdullah also indefinitely postponed what would have been the country's biggest infrastructure project, a $3.8 billion replacement for the dilapidated railway system awarded by Mahathir in his final days in office to a consortium led by businessman Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary. "It's really been a shocker how far and how fast Abdullah has gone," comments a senior Western diplomat in Kuala Lumpur. "I think he's really changing the way people look at the country...