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...science complex, which will house Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute, will consist of four buildings connected by glass sky bridges. The complex will utilize environmentally friendly techniques to keep greenhouse gas emissions at least 50 percent below the national standard...
...Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has gained widespread attention for proposing that universities be held to the same standards as other charitable organizations, which must spend a minimum of five percent of their endowments each year...
...While Harvard, which currently spends 3.5 percent of its endowment wealth each year, intends to provide the committee with much of the information that it has requested, Casey said a five-percent rule would be detrimental because universities face different challenges than other types of non-profit organizations...
...When charities have to reach the five-percent spending rate, they can just write a check to another group, but we have to plan budgetary cycles over a much longer horizon,” Casey said. “To establish the rules of the road is fine, if there’s abuse. But you don’t always have to legislate...
...past six years, Harvard’s study abroad program has undergone dramatic expansion. Last academic year, 659 students participated in the study abroad program, over a 300 percent increase since 2001, according to the Office of International Programs...