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...seems nowadays that there are more college ranking systems than colleges themselves. FM has stepped in to sort out this mess and turn the table around. What we bring you is the first ever ranking of the college rankings. Use our ranking survey wisely. Keep our numerical gradations in mind, but also be sure to take into consideration the extracurricular benefits available in conjunction with the Princeton Review, for example, or the type of people whom you are likely to associate with if you decide on The Academic Ranking of World Universities...
Produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education, this survey is heavily weighted towards the natural sciences with less emphasis on the humanities. Independent observers have claimed that the rankings have been impossible to duplicate accurately...
What's clear is that many homeowners are in the midst of an intense financial crisis. In a September 2008 survey by Campbell Communications, an outfit that works with the mortgage industry, property taxes were the third most cited reason people thought they might stop making mortgage payments, illustrating that the financial pressures on overwhelmed homeowners go far beyond the terms of their loans. "Many of the people who bought homes were not prepared to be homeowners," says survey designer Tom Popik. And all the loan modifications in the world can't change that...
While Harvard University Dining Services has hired 14 undergraduates to serve as Food Literacy Representatives with the goal of educating students about its sustainability initiatives, thus far students have been more interested in airing their dining grievances. After a survey in the HUDS 2008 Sustainability Report noted that students lack fundamental knowledge about environmental sustainability, the representative positions were created as part of the HUDS food literacy project to help create programs based on students’ environmental interests. But some student representatives say they have been fielding a lot of complaints unrelated to sustainability...
...though, there is much danger in all this complacency. Sources from the opinion pages of The Crimson to annual mental health survey testify: Students here are often playing hurt. They see themselves as being held to a standard they can never truly meet, in classrooms, clubs and conversation—yet onward they plunge. The Harvard ideal, which administrators and tabletop fliers insist is unreal, means staying functional with rioting nerves, staying charming with crippling doubts, working though every impulse insists on slowing down. Just as the Ad Board sentences, so do its little disciples judge and admonish, themselves...