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Some saw similar gains—four percent at Dartmouth and five percent at Stanford. Others had more significant jumps—42 percent at the University of Chicago, 20 percent at Brown, 19 percent at Princeton, and 17 percent at the University of Pennsylvania...
Harvard received over 30,000 applications for the Class of 2014, a record high that exceeds last year’s total by about five percent...
...therapy is a good thing. There is an abundance of studies professing the positive effects of therapy on depression. Depression can get better by itself, but according to one study done in 1999, adolescents who received cognitive treatment for their depression had a 67 percent recovery rate, as opposed to a 48 percent recovery rate for those who received none. Numerous studies have examined the treatments for anorexia and eating disorders, including one done in 2003, which suggested that those who received therapy for anorexia nervosa had significantly higher recovery rates than those...
...last academic year, Smith urged FAS departments and administrative units to cut their budgets by 15 percent. The Faculty also underwent a litany of budget-saving measures—such as a temporary freeze on faculty hires, a decrease in funding for food and office supplies, and growing reliance on the work of fewer staffers, after 531 accepted an early retirement package...
Maybe no university minds being at the top of a list, even if the statistics that accompany the top spot are a $10.9 billion-dollar loss and -29.8 percent change in endowment market value. And sure, we’re accustomed to Yale, Stanford, and Princeton being behind us...but then again, endowment mismanagement is one area we don't really want to dominate...