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...Harvard College admissions officers scramble to determine the final list of students who will be offered admission to the Harvard Class of 2011, there is one group of students that will feel the squeeze of the expanding freshman class—transfer students. The number of transfers students offered spots at Harvard is expected to be cut in half for the coming year, according to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...Jasmine Boulware, for instance, was listed as an out-of-state transfer - even though her two siblings still attended the high school. At least two dozen students officially listed as transfers were found by TIME to still be living in the district. Among them was Andrew Dreher, a white student who voluntarily dropped out in 10th grade, never left Charlotte and is currently working at a fast food restaurant...
Harvard and 11 other institutions released a set of guidelines for how universities license technology to companies for commercial use, calling for agreements that would make inventions benefiting the developing world more affordable. The practice, known as technology transfer, involves universities selling the rights to market a technology invented through academic research to a private entity. The white paper, released Wednesday, urged academic institutions to consider crafting licensing agreements that make inventions that benefit impoverished populations, particularly in the developing world, less expensive. The points also stipulated that universities strive to prevent agreements from stopping research at other...
...Home institutions rarely know when their students transfer to other schools. We only know that they have not (yet) completed a degree here,” Associate Dean of Academic Advising Monique Rinere writes in an e-mail. But while it’s hard to get exact numbers, a small number of Harvard students definitely do transfer...
Maxson cites “emotional ties” to Duke and “personal reasons” as her main justifications for applying to transfer there. Her boyfriend of almost eight months goes to Duke, and she calls herself “a total Dukie...