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Financial experts discussed issues ranging from the causes of the current economic crisis to its potential ramifications at a panel moderated by Business School Dean Jay O. Light yesterday. Nicholas P. Retsinas, a lecturer of business administration at the Business School and a former director of Freddie Mac, traced the roots of the turmoil in the mortgage markets to the New Deal. “Many of the housing rules currently in place came from the New Deal,” he said. “At the time, officials were trying to figure out how best to make credit...
...He’s a very principled guy,” said Diaz, now the resident dean in Dunster. “For him, family values and values in general are very important...
...have access to over $745,000 in funding for this academic year, including funds through the UC that are expected to surpass a half-million dollars, according to UC Vice President Randall S. Sarafa ’09. The money for the Student Life Fund will come from Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds’ discretionary fund. “Student groups have continually voiced a need to have funding for travel,” UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 said. In the past, he said, the UC funded travel only within the Boston...
...test-takers in 2008, for instance, those whose family incomes were above $200,000 averaged 570 in SAT math, while students with family incomes below $20,000 had an average score of 456. A commission of prominent college admissions figures—headed by Harvard’s own dean of admissions and financial aid, William R. Fitzsimmons ’67—has finally challenged the status quo with a year-long study that came to a not-so-startling conclusion: The SAT is not the best gauge of college-readiness.Steve Syverson, commission member and vice president for enrollment...
...they suggested that it may be due to the current fragile state of the economy. “It’s really difficult to just take these classes and try to speculate on what’s going on there,“ said Jay M. Harris, the dean of undergraduate education. “With economics you might think that there are people who are thinking about other careers, but who knows.” The class with the fourth highest enrollment, Economics 1010a: “Microeconomic Theory,” also saw a fall...