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Companies expect two things from their summer intership program, Saunders says: "to make offers and to make business output, and the latter is more important, so companies will hire exceptional underclassmen sometime...
...with the fluorescent you can put your hand on it. They're much safer, we've measured it as matching the light output of the halogen, and they use less than a third of the energy," he said...
...Casper's censure of the "specious formulas and spurious precision" of the lists. What is wrong, many say, is that the conclusions are based too much on input--the current reputation of each school and the attributes of incoming students. More helpful, they say, would be a measure of output--what consumers (that's what applicants really are) are likely to get in exchange for as much as $120,000 at today's prices...
...movement toward output-based evaluations has been gathering momentum. New York State has announced that it is developing a system to measure, among other things, the value of a degree from each of its 263 degree-granting institutions, both public and private, two-year and four-year. The Carnegie Foundation, which developed the first college classification back in 1970, is overhauling its taxonomy to reflect the changes in many institutions. The explosion in the number of commuter colleges and, most recently, "virtual" universities that teach over the Internet poses a new dimension to these earlier classifications. Currently, only...
...leading scorer in the Ivies, and sophomore forward Matt Striebel each added another goal. The Tigers got out to a two-goal lead in the first 20 minutes, and traded goals with Cornell for the rest of the game. The five goals in the game matched Princeton's offensive output for the rest of the season in its entirety...