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...achieves diversity in two ways. First, it makes the process fairer for those students who could not apply early under the previous system because of a lack of money or inadequate college counseling. Second, the extra time in the fall gives admissions officers and athletic coaches the chance to recruit qualified high school students who would not typically apply to Harvard. While opponents of the decision warned that top applicants would be lost to peer institutions, “letters of intent” expressing interest in a student’s candidacy were sent in advance of official admissions?...
...grants, stopped including home equity in loan calculations, and guaranteed that families making from $120,000 to $180,000 would pay only 10 percent of their income to send a child to college. This program will benefit students as well as the university as a whole, allowing it to recruit and admit students that would be otherwise unable to attend. The trend toward expansion of financial aid was also seen in initiatives at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, which all expanded their financial aid programs. These decisions reflect a University-wide commitment...
...opportunity appeared to have come and gone.As a freshman on the women’s hockey team coming into the 2006-07 season, Christina Kessler, a highly touted recruit out of Oakville, Ont., was expected to compete for the starting goalie job right away. But when Kessler arrived at Harvard with torn ligaments in her knee, then-sophomore Brittany Martin took advantage of the lack of competition and solidified herself as a mainstay in the net. Although Kessler healed in time to see game action towards the end of the season, Martin got the nod during the playoffs and turned...
...education-centric campaign that should be supported and continued in the Commonwealth is the recruitment of bilingual teachers from the Caribbean to Boston Public Schools. Recently, Boston’s schools have seen their percentage of Hispanic students rise to 30 percent. To help this demographic, schools have begun to recruit teachers from Puerto Rico. Although these teachers will not be teaching in Spanish, they will have the language skills necessary to help students whose first language is Spanish grapple with concepts that are too complicated for them to understand in English. While this movement should be supported, however...
Indeed, such anxiety is reflected in the national statistics. Since MEPA-IEP was passed in the mid-1990s, the proportion of transracial adoptions has risen only modestly - from 17.2% in 1996 to 20.1% in 2003. Meanwhile, the government has not compelled agencies to recruit foster and adoptive parents who reflect the ethnic make-up of children in the system, even though the law says they must, so racial disparities have persisted within the family services system. Black children are adopted less frequently and more slowly than kids of any other race. Fifteen percent of U.S. children are black, but they...