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News flash, freshmen! Your Peer Advising Fellows don’t really want to hang out with you-they’re getting paid a sweet grand to listen to you whine. Here’s what they’d say if they could talk without blowing the cash. 1) “Don’t join any extracurriculars; when you feel lonely, just start drinking.” 2) “You have to lose your virginity before you register for classes; here, let me help you with that...
...largest university endowments, HMC President Mohamed A. El-Erian wrote in his first annual “John Harvard” letter. It is down from last year’s 19.2 percent return and the 21.1 percent return achieved in 2004. While few peer universities have released their endowment figures for fiscal year 2006, Stanford reported a 19.4 percent return for the same period, beating Harvard’s by 2.7 percentage points. Both universities handily outpaced the S&P 500 index, which registered an 8.5 percent return over the same period. “The most important issue...
...completely. Harvard often compares itself to peer institutions—and Stanford, which boasts the third largest university endowment, beat Harvard’s investment return by 2.7 percentage points this past year. Yale—whose endowment is the second-largest among universities, after Harvard—hasn’t released its 2006 numbers yet. But Yale’s rate of returns has consistently outpaced Harvard’s over the past two decades...
...which they shared information on their financial aid policies. But the schools agreed to stop the information swaps in 1991, as part of an agreement with U.S. Justice Department antitrust prosecutors.Even if the schools aren’t in direct contact, Harvard hopes it holds some sway over peer institutions’ practices.“We’re looking for all the company we can get,” Fitzsimmons said.Harvard, like Princeton, won’t end its early admissions program until the next academic year—when current high-school juniors are applying...
...wonderful outcome for the College.” Dingman also lauded Pilbeam’s work as chair of the Advising and Counseling Committee, responsible for the recent overhaul of the advising system. The new Advising Programs Office (APO), which coordinates undergraduate advising and launched the new Peer Advising Fellows program, has added five new staff members since its formation last spring. But the new office will be staffed with some familiar faces, as former administrative standbys take on new posts. Assistant Dean of Advising Programs James N. Mancall, resident dean of Ivy Yard for the past six years, made...