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...financial constraints. One of the new program’s most promising features is the elimination of loans as a part of aid packages. Studies have shown that high levels of debt cause students to choose more lucrative career fields, often forgoing opportunities in the public and non-profit sectors that they might have otherwise explored. Students should not have to choose between pursuing their passions and servicing their debt. The removal of student debt in aid packages will go a long way towards leveling the playing field between privileged and underprivileged students. Similarly, the decision to stop considering home...
...companies in areas like cleaner energy or environmentally friendly consumer products. HSBC has tracked back its benchmark climate-change index to 2004, and claims it would have outperformed the MSCI World Index by about 70% - evidence that, so far at least, there has been plenty of opportunity to profit from environmental peril...
...think it’s important for anyone to think big, especially girls.” Chauhan’s first big idea led to an appearance in CosmoGirl! where she was featured for her work with Teens for Alzheimer’s Awareness, a national non-profit organization she founded at 15 and continues to be involved with even today. Non-CosmoGirl! readers may still recognize Chauhan around campus as the co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Women’s Leadership Project (WLP), or as the business development chair for Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business...
...Business Plan Contest. What distinguishes I^3, Segal said, is its undergraduate and multi-track focus. Students from a variety of concentrations and interests are encouraged to compete for cash grants worth up to $10,000 by submitting business plan proposals in one of four tracks: For-Profit Startups, Campus Service Ventures, Social Entrepreneurship, and Creative Enterprises. The purpose of the multi-track nature of the program is to allow for the expression of different modes of innovation, organizers said. “We are hoping for a broad spectrum of interests to apply,” Segal said...
...ripple effect throughout the country.Thankfully, we wouldn’t be alone. A majority of the member schools in the Annapolis Group, a large coalition of liberal arts colleges, decided to opt out of the rankings this summer. And in September, a conference at Yale sponsored by the non-profit group The Education Conservancy led to the “Beyond Ranking” campaign, an effort by college and university leaders to develop a “robust, nuanced, and educationally sound web-based system of information, guidance, and interactive tools—one that puts the educational needs...