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...There are always students from all types of backgrounds,” he said. “Test scores are only one of many criteria we use to admit people...
...view the most important—features of the Task Force’s report was allowing well-qualified students to break out of the straightjacket imposed by the Core by substituting departmental classes for Core requirements. In place of the Core’s often absurd criteria for classes—for instance, it requires a final exam—the Task Force recommended a more flexible set of guidelines for vetting general education courses. The draft legislation, written by a three-member committee of professors, proposes the creation of a Standing Committee on General Education, which will oversee...
...companies from which we want Harvard to divest. Our hope is that divestment will force the companies to change their behavior, and once they do so, we would gladly re-invest in them. We ask Harvard to divest only when a company meets four stringent criteria: 1) It has a business relationship with the Sudanese government or is involved in a government-created project; 2) It fails to benefit civilians outside of the government; 3) It fails to implement a substantial corporate governance policy regarding the crisis in Darfur; and 4) It fails to respond to attempts at shareholder engagement...
...happened, according to Trung, when the actress Angelina Jolie applied to Vietnam through an agency asking for a healthy boy between ages 3 and 5, Pax happened to be the only one at Tam Binh orphanage who met the criteria. There were 31 other boys the same age, but all of them had relatives or were not "healthy." "Only Sang met the set criteria for adoption in general and her request," Trung said. "She was lucky at the time she applied that there was this boy who met the request and criteria." (Vietnam's national adoption director says that...
...gives out grants based on objective criteria in a non-arbitrary process, trying hard not to make value judgments about the content of the event itself. The UC instead considers how reasonable the event’s costs are, how integral to the expenses are to the event’s success, and the magnitude of undergraduate benefit the event will produce...