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Currier House resident tutors Shahram and Laura Khoshbin have been named interim House masters for the coming academic year, outgoing House master and Shad Professor of Business Ethics Joseph L. Badaracco announced at Thursday's Currier House diploma ceremony...
...It’s high time that his alma mater finally hands over his diploma,” said Paul J. Finnegan ’75, the outgoing president of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...denied to anyone based on anything other than his or her own choice. From a purely economic standpoint, the wage paid to a graduate of a four-year college is about 45 percent more on average than that paid to someone who holds only a high school diploma. A college education also opens avenues to a more fulfilling life, increasing occupational opportunities, providing a nationwide (and even worldwide) social and professional network, and broadening students’ experiences by exposing them to varying views and ideas. These intangible benefits are also invaluable assets for further economic and social success, informing...
...though how states measure such figures continues to spur debate. Five- and six-year graduation rates are also up. "We think it's powerfully important to increase all these rates," says Klein. "It may take a kid a couple of years longer, but if the kid gets the diploma, the economic consequences are huge...
...computers has increased the material well-being of whole populations while dramatically reducing the pool of disenfranchised laborers. The result is that reading and writing, once the perquisite of a choice aristocratic class, have been democratized: In 1870, only two percent of American adults had earned a high school diploma, compared to 80 percent today...