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...Richard Levin, PhD ‘74, President of Yale
KIPP was born in 1994, the brainchild of “Teach for America” alumni Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin. It started as a program for fifth-graders at Houston’s Garcia Elementary School. In 1995, the first KIPP-only schools opened in Houston and the South Bronx...
...Reclaiming the Game, Bowen and co-author Sarah Levin ’00, a graduate student at the Harvard School of Public Health and a former all-American sailor, argued that spots on intercollegiate teams should not be limited to recruits but open to any students...
...athletes—especially male athletes who play the “high profile” sports: football, basketball, and hockey—are not academically representative of their classes. They concentrate disproportionately in the social sciences, and their class ranks are, on average, disproportionately low. Though Bowen and Levin argue that the time commitment teams demand of their athletes should be further reduced, their statistics show that other groups with similar commitments—including non-recruited, “walk-on” athletes—do not under perform the way recruited athletes do. Musicians, for example...
...Yale and its unions eventually reach good contracts, but not without conflict and disruption,” Yale University President Richard C. Levin said in a written statement. “These agreements will ensure that Yale has the quality workforce it needs to support its critical educational and research missions...