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...very difficult to get a job, especially when you don't have a high school diploma. We help them prepare for the GED, the high school equivalency test," says Moeller. "Education is very important, and it gives the inmates a sense of respect to be able to read and multiply. It's refreshing to see them working hard--it's very unusual for someone to make that effort that late in life. One of our tutees wants to go to college. He must work 10 to 15 hours a week preparing for the sessions...
...even if they didn't change the rules, but keeping my House affiliation made it a lot easier, "says Julie Rapoport '84, who transferred from Lowell House. "I like the fact that I am still invited to Lowell House functions and that I can still get my diploma with all my friends in Lowell...
More than half of these women lacked a high school diploma; three-fifths did not have jobs. The poverty rate for these female-headed black families: a worrisome...
Sanae Suzuki graduated in the class of '82 from Tokyo University's faculty of law and, diploma in hand, passed the senior civil service test. One government ministry indicated that a job was waiting. But Suzuki, 23, like many other career-minded Japanese women, decided that most Japanese employers would expect her to serve tea, even to male colleagues from the same class, and perform clerical duties that offered little chance of advancement. So she joined the Tokyo office of the Boston Consulting Group, an American company that specializes in international marketing and other services. Few Japanese corporations...
...names. In addition to these age-old concerns, Harvard, just as every other school in the country, is facing a technological revolution--which, if handled right, could harness these innovations to enhance an undergraduate education, and if handled poorly or ignored, could significantly diminish the worth of a Harvard diploma...