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...payout—or the same dollar amount in endowment income as last year—a School of Public Health spokesperson wrote in an e-mail. The Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing board, has yet to set next year’s endowment payout rate??a figure generally announced in December—leaving schools to plan their budgets without definitive numbers while decisionmakers attempt to get a better idea of market conditions. Though the Corporation is meeting today, University administrators declined to discuss the topics on the agenda this weekend...
...short cover letter addressed to the senators, Faust stressed Harvard’s commitment to expanding access to those from poorer backgrounds, while suggesting that a blanket policy—like Grassley’s talk of mandating a five percent payout rate??might be ill-advised...
...publicized. Eighty-eight percent of students district-wide graduated, which was seven points higher than the 81 percent for the state. The data also showed that while white males graduated at the same rate of 84 percent as the state, black males in the district graduated at a higher rate??91 percent—which is 32 points higher than 59 percent for the state. Simmons said that the district should track students’ success after high school before lauding the graduation rate. Additionally, the tendency to evaluate progress by scores and to “teach...
...most expensive conflict in U.S. history, after World War II. By the end of 2008, the federal government will have spent $800 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (government accounts make it hard to separate the two). However, this figure is just the “burn rate?? spent on combat operations, such as transportation, equipment, fuel, combat pay, and employing the 100,000 contractors who support (and are supported by) the war effort...
According to the admissions office, the school’s willingness to allow students to take a gap year could be correlated with Harvard’s 98 percent graduation rate??one of the highest in the country...