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...curricula. However, Harvard—which does not explicitly take race into account for admissions decisions and is about 9 percent black—has still maintained a high rate. The JBHE looked to Carnegie Mellon University—with its science-heavy curriculum and 65 percent black graduation rate??to support its claim that a school’s curriculum can affect graduation rates. The President and Vice President of the Black Students Association could not be reached for comment last night. —Staff writer Benjamin L. Weintraub can be reached at bweintr@fas.harvard.edu...
...emphasis on the student portion of that double entendre, no one should feel sorry for the institution in question.Here at Harvard, we’re some of the biggest self-loathers of all.As stated in a sports column earlier this week, a newly introduced “Academic Progress Rate?? (APR) released by the NCAA found that Harvard is home to 18 teams in the top ten of their respective sports based on the standard, ten of those teams having received perfect scores according to the rating.That’s fine and dandy, but, remind me again...
Harvard, as a school better known for academics than athletics, was doubtless expected to fare quite well in the first compilation of a new measure called the “Academic Progress Rate?? (APR), released last week by the NCAA...
...once more the site of an anti-administration revolt—with more than a dozen professors confronting President Lawrence H. Summers at a full Faculty meeting Feb. 7, and ultimately producing his ouster.Will the Summers storm cast its pallor on the College’s sky-high yield rate??the percentage of admitted students who choose to enroll?Last spring, Harvard’s yield topped the Ivies at 78.5 percent—almost a full 10 percentage points better than next-place Yale. And the director of college guidance at Collegiate High School in New York...
Surely, The Crimson’s editors are not suggesting that two former deans under Harvard’s justly famous FAS are “second rate?? and deserving of Mr. Summers’ open disdain? Allow me to suggest that your president’s behavior towards them and others is quite uncivilized...