Word: diploma
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...hemorrhaging 7,500 positions in 2005 alone. The unemployment rate hovers around 7%, up from 2.6% in 1998 and nearly double the national average. In inner-city neighborhoods, the level rises to nearly 60% for working-age males. With only half of adults earning more than a high school diploma, the city's residents aren't well matched for the white-collar jobs most common today. The number of able men wandering the streets in the daytime is striking...
...adjust for race. And sure, their graduates go on to all of the best law schools and investment banks. But what you won’t find in the admissions brochures is that lots of their graduates also go on to prison, mainly for being perverts. That fancy diploma won’t get them far there, but those “oral techniques” they picked up at a cappella retreats can be pretty valuable in the showers. Makes sense. Who wouldn’t expect a little extra sauciness from a vocal percussionist...
...Massachusetts Historical Society in conjunction with the Harvard University Press (HUP), is working to make 45 volumes of documents available on the society’s Web site by June 2008. Adams was the second U.S. president—and the first of seven with a Harvard College diploma. He graduated 14th in a class of 24—though class rank at the time was determined by a student’s “dignity of birth” rather than his academic performance, according to an official University history. His son, John Quincy, was the sixth...
...college diploma may be the most expensive piece of paperyou ever buy--and it's getting pricier. The College Board last week reported that tuition and fees at public and private four-year colleges and universities this academic year are up about 6% from last year. Over the past five years, the average price has risen a parent-paralyzing 35%. But don't think it's not worth the expense: according to Census Bureau statistics published last week, a college graduate typically earns about $23,000 more a year than someone who has only finished high school. Many...
...recision of any offer of admission or...revocation of course credit, course grades, and degree.” But has the fine print ever been put into action? Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Barry S. Kane says that he and his colleagues have not dealt with diploma revocation, although it may have happened sometime in Harvard’s history. But if a serious incident of fraud were to occur, Kane thinks the University could act. “One option available to the faculty would be to rescind the awarded degree,” he says...