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Each year, Harvard offers admission to a select group of students—known among admissions officers as the “Z-list”—on the condition that they take a mandatory year off before enrolling in the College...
Following the February Faculty meeting, the dean’s office posted a select set of recommendations that arose out of the budget streamlining process on the newly created FAS Planning Web site. The site noted that FAS had entered an extended “third phase” in its response, following immediate cost-cutting measures and administrative restructuring...
Still, Maria Teresa Kumar, executive director of Voto Latino, a Hispanic civic organization based in Washington, D.C., worries because most Hispanics who do choose between white and black select white. That "risks leaving a mistaken impression that they enjoy certain socioeconomic opportunities we associate with whites in this country," says Kumar, "when in reality [Hispanics] are near the bottom in areas like education and upward mobility." As a result, groups like Voto Latino are encouraging Hispanics to write Hispanic or Latino in the "Other" space for race...
Selsby said that @College e-mail accounts—which have already been successfully extended to the current freshman class and select volunteers—will be issued in April to the incoming freshman class. FAS IT will also continue revamping faculty and staff e-mail servers, a process that has been termed the Iris Project, he added...
...recognition of the social impact of their investigative reporting, select journalists were presented with the annual Goldsmith Awards in a ceremony last night...