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Unlike U.S. News & World Report, which ranks schools based on wide ranging evaluations from peer assessment scores to alumni giving rates, The Atlantic Monthly’s tabulation was determined by only three factors: admission rate, SAT scores and high school class rank. Three simple factors cannot capture the quality of learning or the varied facets of a successful college experience. But it is not necessarily true that the more complex and arguably more subjective U.S. News & World Report methodology yields rankings that are any more appropriate. The immense diversity of colleges and the many intangible features of a successful...
...first light, Russian troops in combat gear move slowly along one of Grozny's ruined main streets, past makeshift crosses erected to their fallen comrades. Hugging the edge of the road to avoid snipers, they peer into the bushes, looking for radio-controlled mines and booby traps laid overnight by Chechen separatists. The soldiers--young conscripts fresh from the provinces and professionals here for the money--are tense, but they barely glance at most Chechens passing by. And the Chechens ignore them. The Russians don't find any mines this morning, and at a concrete-and-barbed-wire checkpoint, their...
Richard Folkers, director of media relations for U.S. News, wrote in an e-mail that The Atlantic list is a helpful peer to his magazine’s rankings...
Past outreaches certainly left some room for improvement, but just because students gave an event a lukewarm review is no reason to eliminate it entirely. The FDO should have worked with the groups rather than around them. Improving the quality of outreaches requires a coordinated effort of peer groups, other campus mental health resources and the FDO. Together they should reintroduce an improved mandatory peer counseling outreach for first-years at the start of the coming spring semester or for the class of 2008 next fall...
...Peer counselors now have the responsibility to take a more active role in alerting first-years of their existence. And ongoing outreach for upperclassmen is important as well—to remind students of the availability of help and how important it is to seek it. Improving access to mental health resources at Harvard is essential, and peer counseling groups must continue to do just that—whether the FDO makes their outreaches mandatory...