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...We’d have a lot of egg on our face if we all applauded new housing, and then we just saw corresponding increases in enrollment,” Galluccio said.While housing anxieties persist, Cantabrigians are increasingly worried about the quality of the city’s public schools??19 percent of respondents said education was their principal area of concern. That marks a 3 percent rise from 2004. But more comprehensive data on schools will become available once Opinion Dynamics completes a study of Cantabrigians’ views on the city’s education system...
...They hope to capture that vantage point and get a sense of what’s on students’ minds.” Murray and 13 other members of the student search committee—students who come from the College as well as the Harvard graduate schools??were selected in May of this year. Together with the faculty advisory group, they will report to the Presidential Search Committee, comprised of members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers. The committee does not include Interim President Derek C. Bok. Murray describes the role...
While other top universities are backing a new initiative intended to ensure that products bearing their school insignias aren’t produced under sweatshop-like conditions, Harvard is withholding its support for the effort.Although 33 schools??including Brandeis, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, the University of Michigan, and 10 University of California campuses—have endorsed the year-old initiative, Harvard says it needs more time to make a decision on the issue.Harvard is already a member of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a group of over 150 schools that monitors university-licensed apparel companies and their...
...School at Dartmouth, which had topped three of the Journals’s past six annual rankings. HBS placed eighth when the Journal first debuted its rankings in 2001. According to the Journal, prestigious business schools like Harvard and Stanford did not rank in the top ten despite the schools?? academic prowess. According to the Journal, “academic quality isn’t the primary concern of most survey respondents.” “While recognizing the brainpower of their students and faculty, recruiters complain that they often find graduates of some...
...Harvard’s words—nearly verbatim. Harvard’s interim president, Derek C. Bok, said last week that “early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.” Students from low-income families must wait until the springtime to compare various schools?? financial aid packages, while richer students whose families can afford to pay college tuition in full can take advantage of the early admissions process. “We agree that early admission ‘advantages the advantaged,’” Princeton President Shirley...