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...quite clear cut: The United States government should seek to facilitate, rather than impede, the immigration of highly skilled internationals who add tremendously to our country and economy. Currently, however, restrictive limits on H-1B Visas—three-year visas issued to high skill professionals and students??are preventing many valuable workers, including foreign graduates of American universities, from contributing to the American economy. Strangely enough, until last week it seemed that the government was moving in the wrong direction on this key issue. In late October, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) slipped an amendment into...
...Achilles heel. Evaluations mean little when they do not include a full sample of students enrolled in a course. For course-shoppers, this often creates a skewed perception of a class’s quality. For faculty and teaching fellows, this means that feedback is incomplete, making gauging their students?? experience difficult. And administrators, who use teaching evaluations to allocate resources and even make tenure decisions, may only have a fuzzy picture of the quality of teaching in a given class or department.Last year, undergraduate participation in course evaluations was dismally low, as evidenced by the barrage...
...wide audience, including students, companies, and the universities themselves. “There’s certainly more interest [this year] than there ever was,” Ince said. Richard W. Bischoff, director of admissions at the California Institute of Technology, said that rankings can shape students?? initial consideration of a school. But he also echoed McGrath’s comments, saying that while it is pleasing to be recognized, students?? final decisions do not depend on them. The universities are evaluated on six criteria: peer review, recruiter review, excellence in research based on citations...
Rarely have fame, power, and privilege not tempted Harvard students??but this year’s Undergraduate Council (UC) election threatens to be one for the books. With less than two weeks before the deadline for candidacy declarations, only one established ticket has emerged. In confirming the bid of current UC Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 and Finance Committee Chair Randall S. Sarafa ’09 for the UC presidency and vice presidency, UC insiders have suggested that there will likely be no other candidates who are currently UC representatives. Even more troubling...
...result of the fight over party grants, however, the College now has significantly more leverage to challenge UC expenditures. This was not a victory by any stretch of the imagination, although certain self-congratulatory members of the UC would have you believe so. In fact, students?? rights, to the extent that they even exist at a private university, would probably be more extensive today had the UC never engaged the administration at all and simply agreed not to reimburse students for alcohol...