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...program, which will provide $500,000 in loan repayment per year, is particularly valuable because it appears to address both these outside loans as well as school issued loans. Harvard and other universities with the cash to support this type of program ought to look to Tufts as a model. Harvard is a leader in its financial generosity and has made numerous strides towards making higher education universally affordable, most notably its Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. Harvard also has a track record of facilitating public service careers. For instance, in 2003 Harvard expanded aid to graduate students in public service...
...there, but you're charting new areas. Go too far, step out of bounds, and you're in science fiction. So you have to be careful. But you want to be as close to the edge as possible." When he first proposed manipulating mouse genes to help model disease, the nih gatekeepers thought he was over the line. "Not worthy of pursuit," they said of his grant proposals. Happily, Capecchi ignored them...
...take a decision without properly consulting his colleagues on the UC! The arrogance and inhumanity of it alone is appalling, especially in the broad and frothy wake of the incorrigibly-unilateral Summers. This alarming trend among Harvard administrators must be nipped in the bud. The UC, being the very model of collegiality and non-competitive collaboration, would be a great improvement. In a stinging indictment issued on Monday, Michael R. Ragalie ’09, chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee, exposed the profound malice with which “our colleagues in the administration?...
...sailing across the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he wrote a charge to his band of settlers, a charter for their new beginnings. He offered what he considered “a compass to steer by” – a “model,” but not a set of explicit orders. Winthrop instead sought to focus his followers on the broader significance of their project, on the spirit in which they should undertake their shared work. I aim to offer such a “compass” today...
...scholarly journals “for free or at very low cost,” our experience inside the world of scholarly publishing suggests otherwise. Nothing that provides a service is free. Open access for scholarly publications will improve the academic exchange of ideas only if a sensible economic model evolves in parallel. Giving away something for free is always appealing, but advocates for unfettered open access should do their homework and learn again that you get what...