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Both Yale and Stanford offer its first-year students optional “Great Books” programs??a unique curriculum that introduces students to texts the colleges deem most important or influential. Yale’s program, “Directed Studies,” attempts to introduce students to the “central texts of the Western tradition,” through a three yearlong courses in literature, philosophy, and historical and political thought. Stanford’s program, “Structured Liberal Education” (SLE), “asks students to confront...
Corporate taxes have been the least funny joke in the absurd tax code for some time now, and it is time for the laughing to stop. The United States spends an absurd amount on both ineffective spending and revenue-raising programs??and this is one of the worst, with well over half of firms taking the federal government for a ride. Instead of trying to beat corporations at their own game, the U.S. would be much better off going after the real target of corporate taxes. The wealthy tend to own more equity and should be taxed directly...
...read that correctly. Most nationally-competitive dance programs??such as perennial Division I national champion Towson—offer stipends and partial scholarship to their members, who they also recruit while in high school...
...grant rules come with the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) this year. First enacted in 1965, the HEA ratifies three essential federal student-aid programs??College Work-Study, Perkins Loans and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants. The inadequacy of the present allocation is unsurprising given that the underlying formula was devised more than 20 years ago. Known as the “base guarantee,” the formula in place now gives established colleges the same share of aid every year, and it has become progressively more out of touch with current changes in college demography...
...laudable model for expanding arts opportunities at Harvard, and the University should consider applying it to other areas of the arts which similarly suffer from a lack of practical creative instruction. Harvard should seek additional relationships with other schools to further establish its film, theatre and visual arts programs??while working to improve its own departments as well. And to increase flexibility in students’ academic lives, the College ought to consider allowing already-enrolled students to gain admission into this new music program, instead of limiting it to students who apply before they arrive as first...