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...campus. An annual survey by the Higher Education Research Institute has long asked freshmen what they think their highest academic degree will be. In 1972, 38% of respondents said a bachelor's degree, but in 2008 only 22% answered the same. The number of freshmen planning to get a master's degree rose from 31% in 1972 to 42% in 2008. Says John Pryor, the institute's director: "Years ago, the bachelor's degree was the key to getting better jobs. Now you really need more than that." (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...House Master vacancies are filled by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds. By the end of the year, she will have had to fill five of the 12 Houses' top slots during her two-year tenure, having filled Master positions in Pforzheimer and Winthrop Houses earlier in the calendar year...
...Brown] is trying to provide a range of experiences for the students over the four years,” Strandberg says. She notes, however, that this is becoming increasingly difficult as more students arrive on campus wanting to continue in a vein of dance they have already began to master...
Harvard history professor James T. Kloppenberg said that Gordon-Reed’s book challenged older assumptions about Jefferson and the nature of master-slave relationships...
Laughter is supposedly contagious, but so is loneliness, according to a new article co-authored by Harvard Medical School professor and Pforzheimer House Master Nicholas A. Christakis...