Word: peering
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...their consequences. That’s just plain stupid.For a university that has always been damned good at marketing itself to alumni and potential donors, Harvard is astoundingly inept at explaining simple policy changes to its own students.Take as an example the creation of Harvard’s new peer-advising program, of which I am fortunate to be a part. Last year, instead of announcing that the popular, 25-year-old Prefect Program would henceforth be better funded and better trained than ever before, the College simply said that the program would no longer exist, and would instead...
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...
Until 2002 that is, when Perelman presented a proof of the conjecture in three installments. It was unusually short, and unorthodox in another way—instead of publishing it in a peer-reviewed academic journal, Perelman posted it to the Internet. But nobody was able to prove it wrong...