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...entire perception of college was shaped by what I saw on Saturday mornings, and by my junior year in high school, I was determined to attend a school where football mattered as much as academics. Like my dad, who had joined the ranks of the Buckeye faithful after attending Ohio State, I too wanted to become a living piece of a heated football rivalry...
Take Howard, the accomplished Hollywood screenwriter who most recently spoke for HFAI. After attending high school in Vallejo, California, Howard received a scholarship to attend Princeton University...
...past, students have listened to prominent Harvard academics, such as Christopher N. Avery ’88, Roy E. Larson Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Kennedy School of Government, and Caroline M. Hoxby '88, Harvard’s former Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics who now teaches at Stanford. Both have focused on socioeconomic factors in American higher education in their academic work...
...about his transition from working class Vallejo to the Ivy League. “I felt like I had landed on a spaceship,” he said at the event. “There were these preppies [and] I didn’t even know what a prep school was.” Howard, however, found a passion freshman year: history. And today, as an historical drama writer, he benefits from his education everyday...
...organized the event, can personally attest to Howard’s passion for increasing access to higher education. She met Howard while a student at his high school alma mater. The two maintained a relationship as she went through the college application process. “Greg really believed in me,” she said...