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...than continue to raise the economic bar to foreigners wishing to enter the country, the federal government should seek to alleviate the costs for international students. Ever rising costs will inevitably affect the numbers of international students, especially in smaller and community colleges. While Harvard and many of its peer institutions are able to generously refund the SEVIS fee to applicants, increasing the student fees is a problem that contributes to the national malaise of immigration policy. As it is, international students are largely bracketed to those who are wealthy enough to afford the cost of attending school...
...database of published articles and providing small excerpts from any documents with matching text. Despite the popularity of anti-plagiarism programs used on student work in college campuses, such programs are rather rare in academic publications. Many journals simply rely on experts to manually catch copied work during peer-review sessions. “In days before electronic copies of articles, [peer reviews] were all we could rely on,” said Stuart M. Shieber ’81, a professor of computer science and a co-director of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet...
Sheehan, an economics concentrator and another member of the Phi Beta Kappa Junior 24, wrote her senior thesis on rating agencies and their role in the sub-prime markets. In her spare time, Sheehan was president of the Seneca, a women’s non-profit organization; a Peer Advising Fellow; and a member of Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business during her freshman and sophomore years...
...professor chooses to opt out. The professors retain the copyright and anyone, Harvard affiliated or not, has free access. This repository program bypasses the copyright expenses and royalties that journals collect. Journals are not all costs however, and one negative of avoiding scholarly journals is the loss of the peer-review process. Yet programs like this one are an important way of providing access to information at no cost. Regardless of method, universities have to strike a balance between these two responsibilities—student costs and intellectual property. Harvard is fortunate enough to provide its students with JSTOR...
...This involves comprehensive inventories of emissions and cost-benefit analyses of alternative national policies to control pollutants. “Our primary goal is not to change policy,” Nielsen said. “Our goal is to build the scholarship.” He called for peer-reviewed, published studies on the topic to complement the existing literature. Though the researchers emphasized the long-term nature of the project, they also encouraged its immediate application. “In the short run this is really a bad problem,” said Mun Ho, a fellow...