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...their guidance counselors and are missing any sort of advice on how to get into college. The service helps students think about college through activities and role play, and considers it a victory when a student even applies. For Rosenthal, the satisfaction of getting a student into a tier one school as opposed to a tier two school is substantial. But simply helping someone to get into college when they would not have otherwise gone changes their family and their hope for a better future.“It’s really a choice about what your organization?...
...Tootsie Roll Pops amid a seasonal arrangement of pumpkins. Its neighbor, Berwick Academy, had a less impressive spread: a basket of apples and unopened jugs of apple cider kept lonely company with a welcome book yet to be signed by a single alum. But the top-tier tent village was about much more than candy and pretentious beer. Alec P. Smith, who called the strokes at the University of Richmond tent, explained that Reunion Village is “a really good place for alumnae of schools that are competing to gather and watch.” Stanford alumna Erica...
...implementing the new general education curriculum, the new committee should group courses that satisfy a particular requirement into two tiers. The first will contain all of the various departmental courses that satisfy a given general education requirement. These will be determined based on an evaluation of the course’s subject material and syllabus to make sure that the course matches up with the guiding philosophy of a given area of general education. We expect that the vast majority of courses that count for general education credit will be in this tier...
...second tier will be an elite group of courses categorized as “general education courses.” These courses will be designated by their general education group; for instance, Courses of Instruction would list The Ethical Life 22, “Justice,” and The Market and Society 10, “Principles of Economics...
According to the study, people surveyed said they perceived health care to be a second-tier issue for the government...