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...PBHA trip to Mississippi. Now, he will pursue a Masters of Education degree at the University of Mississippi while teaching in the Delta for the Mississippi Teacher Corps—a far cry from entertainment law. He hopes to someday return to Trenton and his alma mater, Trenton Central High School. Amutah has learned that he wants to put his Harvard education to beneficial use. His advice to like-minded individuals? “What you can do is devalue the fact that you went to Harvard...
...emotional connections to the University and their familial connections to alumni. More importantly, proponents of legacy preference claim that the practice also helps to engage alumni with the University beyond their Harvard years; knowing that their sons and daughters stand a better chance of admission to their alma mater, alumni are more generous with their money, and possibly more significantly, their time. To be sure, these are important contributions that ultimately benefit the Harvard community, but to what extent and at what cost? Harvard alumni are proud and involved for many reasons; that their children may be admitted preferentially...
However, Kitagawa feels that when he speaks to students at his alma mater, Nada High School, he is putting Harvard within a more attainable reach...
...alliance between Romney and Mankiw contrasts with the governor’s sharp attacks against his alma mater this past summer. Romney earned degrees in law and business from Harvard in 1974, but in the last few months, he has ripped into the University for hosting an Iranian leader and for using human embryos in stem-cell research...
...have become more serious in their pursuit of alumni support, there is not as strong of a “culture of philanthropy” in the United Kingdom compared to that surrounding American universities. Ten percent of Cambridge and five percent of Oxford graduates donate to their alma mater, according to Bloomberg, compared with 40 percent for Harvard in fiscal year...