Word: peering
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...Expressions, Candela Salsa, and South Asian Dance Company performed for the guests. Some of the groups even taught attendees some dance moves from their routines. Over the course of the evening, the marathon attracted over 150 students. Operating costs for the marathon were covered by a Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor grant and a grant from the Undergraduate Council. Including ticket sales and donations from corporate sponsors, the marathon raised approximately $3,000, according to Verma. Compared to dance marathons held at other colleges throughout the nation, the HCDM’s fundraising efforts fell short. The Children?...
...people willing to personally commit to help Harvard reduce its GHG emissions, and the creation of Green Teams, which promote recycling, waste reduction, and sustainable measures at the graduate schools. “We’ve worked hard with the REP program to promote social marketing and peer-to peer marketing,” Gogan said. “We’re trying to raise the recycling flag where we can and promote waste reduction and smart procurement.” REPs will also be volunteering at the Harvard Yale game. Six 30-yard dumpsters of trash were...
...Intrigued by his presentation, several students later looked up some of his peer-reviewed articles and found that Richardson was on Millennium’s advisory board—a potential conflict of interest that was not disclosed during the session with Richardson and his patient...
...educational quality - at four-year schools across the country. The survey, which is funded by the nonprofit Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, provides hundreds of colleges and universities with some of the most comprehensive data available on how well they're engaging students compared to their peer institutions. The survey's main goal is to help schools figure out how to do a better job of educating college kids. Now, however, more and more school presidents - fed up with what they are feel are arbitrary school rankings - are making the benchmarks public as an alternative resource for college...
...Today last year managed to convince a lot of colleges to participate in its interactive database, which uses several sets of bar graphs to show how a particular school stacks up against a group of peer institutions. But the database doesn't provide numerical rankings. Which means consumers have to gather a lot of data and do their own calculations to compare one school to another, which is precisely the kind of thoughtful research colleges wants prospective students to be doing. (See pictures of eighth-graders being recruited for college basketball...