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Harvard will consolidate health plans for employees from four administrators to two beginning July 1, the University announced last month. The two plans to be dropped—Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Tufts Health Plan—together enroll 19 percent of employees, but University officials said the transition will cause “minimal disruption” because of the plans’ similar structures. “Health benefits are not changing,” said Peter V. Marsden, who chairs Harvard’s advisory committee on health benefits. “What?...
Although partly in jest, Gladwell’s argument is emblematic of a rising public backlash against the Ivy League. With the most recent admissions acceptance rate at a daunting 7.1 percent, it is now, more than ever, clear that a high GPA and strong standardized test scores alone cannot guarantee a place at Harvard. As the admissions game becomes harder and harder to win, many high schools are advising students to dismiss unhealthy infatuations with the Ivy League. The criticisms are not only on the student side: A recent article in BusinessWeek berated the Ivies for using their stratospheric...
Neither does Harvard exercise hegemonic authority over the direction of academic research. According to the 2007 report of the Harvard Management Company, the university received 80 percent of its sponsored research funding from the federal government and 12 percent from foundations. These statistics indicate that public—rather than private—discretion overwhelming dictates the areas toward which Harvard’s research budget is directed. Not only does federal funding often come with strings attached, but it also flows essentially from taxpayers; this makes Harvard theoretically more responsible to the public than if its funding were completely...
...debatable contention might erode, and soon: yesterday, it was reported in this paper that Harvard’s undergraduate acceptance rate this year has sunk to nearly seven percent, a record low. This news came in the wake of the administration’s rightly unpopular decision to eliminate the transfer program for the next two years. Harvard’s gates are closing quickly, to the inevitable benefit of those few best equipped to claw their way in: those, that is, with ambitions and resumes as worrying as they are sprawling and meticulous, or aristocratic origins to which...
...such as plastic surgery—after graduation. The medical school sees higher debts as the impetus behind a trend that has seen a decrease in the proportion of the school’s graduates who enter primary care. This number has declined from 57 percent in 1999 to 44 percent this year. The move seems to present an early indication that the strategic planning initiative of medical school Dean Jeff Flier is on the right track. University President Drew Faust’s statements that she will prioritize financial aid in future fundraising efforts provide further cause for optimism...