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...described are sharply focused, and we have to be consistent in this focus. Everyone in Ashoka has to be entrepreneurial, everyone has to be collegial—meaning they are innovative and [empowered]. It’s a team of teams. We are growing at a rate of 35 percent last year, 80 percent next year, and that’s all because we are in this historic moment: the transformation of the citizen sector...
...College’s Admissions and Financial Aid office will cut its travel budget next year by fifty percent, eliminating virtually all non-local high school visits, Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in an interview yesterday. The scale-down—the admissions office’s response to a Faculty of Arts and Sciences-mandated budget cut of 15 percent for all units—comes two years after Harvard announced an end to its Early Admissions program. At the time, Fitzsimmons stressed the office’s commitment to increasing outreach...
...College’s nine river and three Quad Houses, with a $1 billion price tag. But last Tuesday, Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced that construction of two new residential colleges on that campus, in addition to other construction projects, will be delayed, citing a projected 25 percent drop in Yale’s endowment by June. University President Drew G. Faust also forecasted a similarly significant endowment drop of roughly 30 percent by the end of this academic year. Still, Suzy M. Nelson, the associate dean of residential life, said that the need for House renewal will...
...layup from Pusar, and the two teams continued trading baskets throughout the rest of the half. Free throw shooting proved to be key in the final stretch, with the Crimson going 14-for-17 compared to Cornell’s 8-for-14. Cornell shot a measly 56.3 percent from the free throw line for the game. Housman converted a layup with two minutes left to give Harvard its final basket. Down 71-67, the Big Red attempted to pull out the comeback, led by Wittman once again. He made a jumper and then had a chance...
Funding for the seed grants comes from a combination of central administration and science school resources. And with a projected 30 percent decline in the University’s endowment value for the year ending June 30, Harvard administrators bracing themselves for severe budget cuts in the next fiscal year have decided not to fund an additional round of grants during the current academic year...