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...Harvard’s own dean of admissions and financial aid, William R. Fitzsimmons ’67—has finally challenged the status quo with a year-long study that came to a not-so-startling conclusion: The SAT is not the best gauge of college-readiness.Steve Syverson, commission member and vice president for enrollment at Lawrence University, already made standardized tests optional at his institution several years ago. He was quoted in The New York Times concerning the SAT and the ACT, “We’re all just making assumptions about these tests. We?...
After three years as a civil rights lawyer and law professor in Chicago, Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate and quickly established himself as different from most of the other African-American legislators. "He was passionate in his views," says state senator Dave Syverson, a Republican committee chairman who worked on welfare reform with Obama. "We had some pretty fierce arguments. We went round and round about how much to spend on day care, for example. But he was not your typical party-line politician. A lot of Democrats didn't want to have any work requirement...
...word seems to be on the street that it is more difficult to be an international student in the U.S. than it used to be,” Syverson said. “The sense is that we’re more restrictive, we’re less welcoming, there’s more hassle and there are other places...
Getting or renewing a visa is not the only impediment in the path of foreign students, however, according to Syverson...
...Syverson ascribed part of the national decline to decreased funding for state universities, which has resulted in poorly staffed international offices and less attention to recruiting students from overseas...