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...Harvard’s attitude toward tenure is not uncommon in the Ivy league. In a 2004 article exploring tenure systems in the Ivies, the Journal of Higher Education pegged Harvard, Princeton and Yale as schools with the toughest tenure policies. Since then, Harvard and Yale have both undergone changes in their respective systems. For example, Yale recently rid itself of the “open search,“ a policy analogous to the senior search still followed at Harvard...
...Washington should regulate how universities spend their vast endowment incomes. “The most highly endowed colleges are in fact the ones doing the most to support affordability among the individuals that go there,” Casey said in an interview. “Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have been using significant methods to bring down tuition. They already are the most generous. It may not be the best thing for Congress to dictate the formulas by which student financial aid and endowment spend out should be connected.” But advocates of closer regulation argue that...
...water polo team stumbled this past weekend at the ECAC Championships, suffering its first multi-loss weekend of the season to finish in eighth place.Coming off an impressive comeback win against MIT, the team lost a bit of luster in foreign waters, losing two games on Saturday against Princeton and Johns Hopkins, 10-8 and 13-11, respectively.The frustration continued yesterday, as the Crimson finished the weekend with its largest margin of defeat, falling 17-11 to George Washington.Marked by offensive inconsistency and an unusual number of turnovers, Harvard resembled a shell of its normally balanced self en route...
...Bobby Curtis, who crossed the line at 23:39 on the men’s side, and Sally Kipyego of Texas Tech, who finished at 19:59 in the women’s race. Villanova also finished first in the men’s standings, while Princeton claimed first in the women’s race...
Most troubling, freshmen outperformed seniors at a number of highly expensive schools, like Princeton and Yale. This is evidence for one of two equally alarming conclusions; either America’s most pretentious universities are making their students stupider, or else their students graduate less American than when they began...