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Increasing the number of women elected to state-level political offices is the focus of a report to be released by the Institute of Politics (IOP) this week. The report is a product of an IOP student policy group examining the deficit of women in politics. The researchers found that the states with the lowest percentages of women in their legislative bodies averaged about 10-15 percent female membership, while the states with the highest female representation had closer to 30-35 percent women. “If you think about the view that women bring to the table...
...addition to the focus on providing experience to a graduating senior, the public service czar will also serve as a liaison between PBHA and the public service tutors in the upperclass Houses. He will also participate in community service planning for the Harvard Club of Boston...
...throughout, she has maintained a focus on improving access to education, implementing programs like the Crimson Scholars, a three-year-old program that aims to prepare local high school students for competitive college admissions...
...large number of individuals from Yale in designing the new grading program. “We wanted to get a better sense of the consequences,” Kramer said. “I think the main benefits are it reduces exam pressure inside so that students can focus less on grades and more on the subject.” Students were notified of the decision in an e-mail by Kramer on Thursday. “No grading system is perfect, but the consensus is that the reform will have significant pedagogical benefits, including that it encourages greater flexibility...
...this state of affairs come about? In what follows I focus on the faculty and set aside the students, where affirmative action has not been so spectacular a failure...