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...Alumni elect the governing boards of many colleges, but relatively few bother to vote. At Harvard, less than 10 percent of the 330,000 alums vote. More should; and they should vote for those candidates who have a strong interest in improving higher education, who can work cooperatively with others, who are open-minded, who are seriously interested in the issues higher education faces today, and who are willing to express their views and not simply rubber stamp whatever is presented to them. These are not necessarily those alums who are the biggest cheerleaders or the biggest donors to their...
...initiative represents a 40 percent, or $3 million, increase in Medical School’s aid budget, and will affect one third of the 700 MD students, according to a letter Flier sent to the Medical School community last week...
...Almost a quarter of the nation’s 25 largest education endowments are now led by women, compared to less than 10 percent a decade ago, according to the Wall Street Journal...
...former vice president of external investments at HMC revamped Wellesley’s investment strategy, creating its first investment office, and helped the school’s endowment earn an average annual return of 13.5 percent during her five-year tenure. Wellesley’s investments grew by almost a quarter in 2007 and nearly matched HMC’s results...
Boston may soon be saying hola to a new crop of Caribbean imports, and we’re not talking about bananas. Faced with a rapidly growing Latino population—30 percent of children in the city’s public schools are Hispanic—administrators have begun aggressively recruiting bilingual teachers from Puerto Rico to teach math, science, special education, and English as a second language. While the merits of bilingual education remain controversial, this recruitment is a positive step to help level the playing field for students and promote their success in the classroom. An article...