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...rate at which Harvard’s tuition is rising is comparable to that of its peer colleges. Stanford trustees announced that tuition will increase by 5.46 percent next year...
Let’s state the obvious first criticism that comes to mind when one thinks of Facebook: It’s damn creepy. There’s a voyeuristic perversity that goes along with the Facebook territory that allows all of us to peer into the inner-goings of just about everybody (well, except people with those pesky restrictions...
...News has been grading colleges and universities since 1983, and while the magazine mostly uses hard data, the largest single component of the rankings - 25% of a school's overall score - comes from a survey that asks presidents, provosts and admissions directors to assess peer institutions. The reputational rating is "a very legitimate tool for getting at a certain level of knowledge about colleges," says U.S. News executive editor Brian Kelly. "Who better to ask to evaluate colleges than top college administrators...
Conventional wisdom holds that, unlike some of its peer institutions, Harvard doesn’t have a crime problem. At the University of Pennsylvania, tour guides point out the forest of emergency phones up and down the campus’ main drag, a panacea against the reputed urban ills of the university’s setting in West Philadelphia, a locality that is probably more familiar to college students as the crime-addled birthplace of the Fresh Prince of Belair. During our annual pissing match with Yale, Harvard students love to poke fun at New Haven’s unsafe...
...between precept and practice may be especially worrisome.” Framed as a compact between students and teachers, the report offered 18 concrete recommendations. These included adjusting compensation for teaching quality, increasing the importance of teaching in decisions regarding promotions, and providing feedback to professors through peer evaluation and mandatory CUE evaluations...