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...recent New York Times op-ed on Harvard’s elimination of its Early Action program, Stanford provost John Etchemendy described the publicity surrounding the change of policy as “short on facts and clearheaded analysis.” Indeed, we will have to wait until May 2009—when the first affected class will have committed to their universities—before the first set of concrete evidence will bear on the wisdom of the change. Nevertheless, we remain confident that higher education stands to benefit from the end of early admissions programs. Both Early...
...alma mater. Gutmann, who was among the finalists to succeed Neil L. Rudenstine in the 2001 presidential search, told The Crimson early yesterday morning as she left her hotel that she was in town “fundraising for the University of Pennsylvania.” The former Princeton provost and political science professor brushed off questions about her interest in the Harvard presidency, saying only “I’m already on record with the Daily Pennsylvanian.” She told the student newspaper in March that “I love what...
Online gamblers are giving Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy better odds at being named Harvard’s 28th president than any candidate not currently on Harvard’s payroll. But, after publishing an op-ed yesterday calling the reasoning behind Harvard’s decision to eliminate early admission “faulty,” Etchemendy told The Crimson he has no ambitions to leave his post at Stanford...
...Stanford provost did not propose simply to leave early admission policies as they stand now. Instead, he wrote, colleges should “universally adopt nonbinding early admission programs, and then apply the same or higher standards to the early decisions as they do to the regular round. It’s a solution that’s fair for the students and practical for the colleges...
...online gambling website Bodog.com gives Etchemendy four-to-one odds for the job, better than every candidate except two Harvard insiders, Law School Dean Elena Kagan, at three to one, and University Provost Steven E. Hyman, at seven...