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...season, 55 percent of undergraduates did not apply for financial aid. The website also reports that six percent of students received Pell grants, which the website states typically go to students with family incomes lower than $40,000. Shireman said that he admired Harvard’s efforts to recruit low-income students through the Financial Aid Initiative. “Everyone looks to Harvard for leadership, and Harvard is sending the right message to students of low-income families that they can afford college,” he said. But Harvard’s profile shows that 45 percent...
...always a little weaker in getting faculty on-board because we find it easier to table and mass e-mail and recruit our fellow students, and because we can be a little shy about approaching faculty,” according to Hazlett. But he predicted that “faculty will become a powerful and moral voice for divestment right alongside the students...
...editors: When I read your editorial about the Supreme Court decision upholding the Solomon Amendment requirement tying federal funding to military recruitment (“Not So Patriotic,” Mar. 13), I thought it must be an ironic humor piece. Poor Harvard must accept $400 million from the federal government, because it is in the best interest of medical and scientific research and of America as a whole. What a sacrifice! There are principles, but then there is money. Perhaps Harvard could salve its conscience by simply refusing the money that comes from the Defense Department. After...
Here's why: many of the companies that already spend big bucks to recruit and train talented employees are bracing for even stiffer competition as baby boomers start to retire amid a shortage of skilled labor. Teaching execs to be on the lookout for microinequities--a term that has bounced around academia since a professor at M.I.T. coined it in 1973--is a cheap way to hold on to hard-won recruits. After all, says Andrea Bernstein, diversity chair at the New York City-- based white-shoe law firm Weil Gotshal, "you never know, when somebody leaves, if she would...
...love Colin Farrell. Ever since his turn as a manipulated CIA fledgling in “The Recruit,” I, like many other star-struck teenage girls, have swooned over the overtly sexual, foul-mouthed, chain-smoking playboy. I didn’t think it got any “badder” than Ireland’s favorite bad boy had already shown us. However, after witnessing Farrell’s latest project, writer/director Robert Towne’s “Ask the Dust,” I left the theater having lost just about...