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...because of financial constraints. One of the new program’s most promising features is the elimination of loans as a part of aid packages. Studies have shown that high levels of debt cause students to choose more lucrative career fields, often forgoing opportunities in the public and non-profit sectors that they might have otherwise explored. Students should not have to choose between pursuing their passions and servicing their debt. The removal of student debt in aid packages will go a long way towards leveling the playing field between privileged and underprivileged students. Similarly, the decision to stop...
...think it’s important for anyone to think big, especially girls.” Chauhan’s first big idea led to an appearance in CosmoGirl! where she was featured for her work with Teens for Alzheimer’s Awareness, a national non-profit organization she founded at 15 and continues to be involved with even today. Non-CosmoGirl! readers may still recognize Chauhan around campus as the co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Women’s Leadership Project (WLP), or as the business development chair for Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business...
...ripple effect throughout the country.Thankfully, we wouldn’t be alone. A majority of the member schools in the Annapolis Group, a large coalition of liberal arts colleges, decided to opt out of the rankings this summer. And in September, a conference at Yale sponsored by the non-profit group The Education Conservancy led to the “Beyond Ranking” campaign, an effort by college and university leaders to develop a “robust, nuanced, and educationally sound web-based system of information, guidance, and interactive tools—one that puts the educational needs...
...Rwanda. Farmer, a professor of medical anthropology at the Medical School, has won international acclaim for his work with HIV/AIDs and tuberculosis in some of the poorest countries of the world. Farmer delivered the lecture on aiding youth with Dai Ellis, the founder of Orphans of Rwanda, a non-profit organization that helps young people affected by the 1994 Rwandan genocide attain a university education. Farmer and Ellis, whose organizations have worked together in Rwanda, emphasized that international aid should be flexible and should rely on locals, not outsiders, to implement change. When working to fight HIV infection of infants...
...high school guidance counselor, said witnessing the suffering of applicants motivated him to seek an alternative to the existing system. Thacker’s project aims to provide “robust information and self-diagnostic tools” for students to select colleges. He wants to create a non-profit mechanism that is “free and open to all”—a project that he said necessitates cooperation with educational leaders. “Ranking itself implies a degree of authority that is not supplied by its data,” Thacker said...