Word: peering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...said they were using the time together as a social opportunity. Anticipating a wait of "hours," many students sat in small circles playing poker, bananagrams, and Jenga. "A lot of games being played, a lot of friends being made," said Brooks Lambert-Sluder, program manager of the Peer Advising Fellows Program...
...recent high school grad from Glen Gardner, N.J., Stephenson is sending out his e-mail solicitation at a time when students' financial needs are expanding and the loan market is shrinking. A slew of peer-to-peer lending companies geared toward the college set - including Virgin Money, GreenNote, Fynanz, and CapAlly - have sprung up in the past year. Borrowers create Facebook-like profiles detailing their backgrounds, interests, and financial goals, and lenders choose the students who seem particularly appealing - or appear most likely to pay back the loan. The companies play matchmaker, then keep track of who owes what...
...media outlets had reported that changes in class size allowed Harvard to pass Princeton, but Morse said that small changes across the board—in areas such as student retention, financial resources, faculty resources, and peer assessment score—also played a role...
...Morse, the U.S. News official, conceded that the rankings' methodology, which bases its measurements on different statistics as well as a subjective score based on peer reputation, has its flaws...
...This year, the overall response rate to the peer survey was just 46 percent, though it was a bit higher—56 percent—in the "national universities" group of which Harvard is a part, according to Morse...