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This May will see those four hundred students with the quintessential Dorm Crew tools??buckets and rags—descend upon the Yard and the Houses. Some are working to earn a bit of spending money for their European excursion, others as a transition between the raucous end-of-year celebrations and the lucrative consulting position that has been on their mind since the congratulatory phone call from McKinsey. In the midst of it all, maybe some of the modesty and perspective that escaped out the window so long ago as that letter arrived will return home...
...critical emergency, multiple communication tools??including building alarms, voice mails, and web pages—would be brought into play, according to both Catalano and University spokesman Joseph Wrinn...
...conference at Yale sponsored by the non-profit group The Education Conservancy led to the “Beyond Ranking” campaign, an effort by college and university leaders to develop a “robust, nuanced, and educationally sound web-based system of information, guidance, and interactive tools??one that puts the educational needs of students center stage and restores educational integrity to college admissions.”While the available descriptions of the Beyond Ranking campaign leaves some important questions up in the air—qualitative comparisons, for instance, might lose some validity...
...important for us to provide such information.” Thacker, a former high school guidance counselor, said witnessing the suffering of applicants motivated him to seek an alternative to the existing system. Thacker’s project aims to provide “robust information and self-diagnostic tools?? for students to select colleges. He wants to create a non-profit mechanism that is “free and open to all”—a project that he said necessitates cooperation with educational leaders. “Ranking itself implies a degree of authority...
...cultural identity attached to it. Leng, known as “Tech” among her friends, will travel to Cambodia next year under the George Peabody Gardner fellowship. Her tentative plans involve working for a non-profit to provide urban women the “entrepreneurial tools?? to market the silk-weaving they produce, Leng says. Her post-graduate goals reflect two interests deepened at Harvard: her Cambodian heritage and public service. Leng, whose family—parents and 40 relatives—moved to Massachusetts a year before she was born, says that her parents?...