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...years into her tenure, Keohane has not stopped trying to pin down the details of her job description. She has used her outsider’s perspective—she is the only Corporation member without a Harvard degree??and the tumultuous events of her tenure as an opportunity to parse Harvard’s system of governance—to learn its ins and outs, and how to best navigate it. In the process, say friends and colleagues, she has become a quiet leader of Harvard’s most powerful governing body...
Gates will receive an honorary degree??his first from the University since leaving Harvard to start a small computer company...
...think of no greater way to send the Class of 2007 into the world than with remarks from two figures who are world-renowned for dedicating themselves to helping others. It is particularly fitting that Gates, despite his achievements at Microsoft, has finally earned his Harvard degree??albeit 30 years behind schedule—in recognition of his philanthropic contributions to mankind...
Instead of noble motivations, he offers supremely ridiculous political proposals. He reveals that he only has thoughts on education policy, and his chief proposal is that every eight-year-old be granted a master’s degree??while still eight years old. This would force most schools to close, he says, and leave a small minority of students actually interested in learning. How exactly giving everyone a master’s degree would force most schools to close—and, more importantly, why that would be beneficial—are, to put it charitably, left unexplained...
...academic year. Similarly, students at public colleges in Massachusetts face an average debt of $15,399, a 39 percent increase from the 1992-1993 academic year. The big jump in college costs and, therefore, debt, has forced many students to drop out of college before getting a degree??the six-year graduation rate at UMass-Amherst is 62 percent for students who enrolled in 1998. The number decreases at other UMass campuses, with UMass-Dartmouth at 50 percent and UMass-Boston at 28 percent. However, Long added, the onus is also on families to plan ahead for their...