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...better schools. Evergreen is one of a set of ambitious schools that in the past half a dozen years have emerged from academe's boondocks or thereabouts to reach for national recognition. All the institutions in the sampler below, along with a growing corps of like-minded schools, have risen under the hands of dynamic presidents. Each offers a special learning opportunity, some at bargain rates, to high school seniors hoping in this climactic month of the admissions season to get accepted by a decent college they can afford...
Last year the school also lured 121 National Merit Scholars with $5,000 annual aid packages and spent an average of $1,000 each in recruiting other students. Since 1981, average SAT scores have risen from 1095 to 1200, and the student body has been cut to 2,759. "Colleges should expect a higher quality of work," says Calgaard, "and if they don't get it they simply shouldn't pass the student...
...recent years, the endowment income has begun accounting for a lower proportion of the University's budget. As a result, tuition has risen and begun accounting for a larger segment of the budget. Over the last 10 years, HMC reinvested income on the endowment to to help offset the inflation rate, but at the same time University expenses were growing and outstripping the amount of endowment income allocated to the general budget. The endowment, which paid for 22 percent of the University's expenses in 1974, only funded 18 percent last year. Tuition increases above the rate of inflation have...
...Scientist Joel Fleishman calls the regional primary "a logical extension of the South trying to find its place in the sun." Texas State Senator John Traeger, chairman of the Southern Legislative Conference and a leading proponent of the Mega Tuesday idea, puts it even more emphatically: "The South has risen again...
Since the EEOC issued guidelines in 1980, grievances have risen from 4,272 in 1981 to more than 6,300 in 1984, and courts have become more sensitive to complaints. Last August, for instance, a judge in Buffalo found a polygraph expert guilty of harassing five women by making unnecessary adjustments of a strap across their breasts, touching their thighs and making lewd comments. The court also found the company liable, even though the expert was an outside contractor, because it knew of his actions and did nothing about them. The decision is being appealed...