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Finding the funds to meet applicants' unprecedented financial need this year is a tall order for all but a handful of mega-wealthy schools, and as colleges decide how much they can afford to give, many worry they won't have enough to attract a full freshman class. Because private undergraduate colleges draw an average of 60% of their operating costs from tuition revenue, a student shortfall could cause a painful budget crunch, forcing schools to cut programs, slash faculty salaries and potentially raise tuition for students already enrolled. With admissions letters in the mail, many colleges are as nervous...
...what happens if in the end, a college can't book a full flight? Glotzbach says the possibility is remote, but Michael Casey, Skidmore's vice president for advancement, estimates that because 80% of the school's funding comes from tuition, any single student's absence could punch a $25,000 to $30,000 hole in the operating budget. And it's possible that the sophomore, junior and senior classes could shrink as well. Shorb has already received about 60 new financial-assistance requests from currently enrolled students, five times as many as in a typical year...
...Optimalist" Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful...
...break out from the lockstep of culture and in so doing make a new connection to their community"--Thoreau as uniter, not divider. And despite Sullivan's insistence that he has not written a biography of the man, there's nothing that his book resembles more than a minilife, full of historical context (a section on mid--19th century economics), personal anecdotes (Thoreau and his brother were at one point in love with the same woman) and analyses of his work. While never fully convincing in his reappraisal, Sullivan makes an elegant case...
...value of the stock market and more than half of Wall Street's corporate pillars have disappeared, along with several million jobs. Venerable corporate enterprises are teetering. But as we gasp in terror at our half glass of water, we really can - must - come to see it as half full as well as half empty. Now that we're accustomed to the unthinkable suddenly becoming not just thinkable but actual, we ought to be able to think the unthinkable on the upside, as America plots its reconstruction and reinvention...