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...former associate dean who left for Brown early last year, told The Crimson in an e-mail last month that she saw a “growing tendency...to describe education as a ‘product’ in the College”—a trend that she called “antithetical to the central values of an academic community...
Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education last month, Lewis connected the departures to what he perceives as a trend in higher education...
...their living expressing being opinionated—have yet to voice one on a matter that threatens the heart of their livelihood. Perhaps their silence indicates a dwindling faith in the importance of their vocation. Regardless, their silence means that it falls upon film fans to reverse this disturbing trend. Don’t see movies that have been withheld from critics, and discourage your family and friends from patronizing these studios. You can’t count on Hollywood’s movie-houses to do what’s right, but you can bet they?...
...think it is fair to say that in many cases a candidate from a community college would indeed increase the diversity of the student body here,” she said.Although Harvard’s efforts to encourage applications from community college students are limited, there is a national trend indicating an increase in the number of four year colleges and universities seeking to admit these students. Many colleges try to attract such applicants using articulation agreements, which provide for the automatic transfer of community college graduates to four year universities. Most recently, the University of Virginia (UVA) instituted...
...Department of Education reported in 2003 that 2.2 percent of the American school-age population was homeschooled. And experts at the Graduate School of Education say that a majority of those families choose to homeschool their children for religious reasons. But even as the homeschooling trend takes root nationwide, a disproportionately tiny number of these students ever win entry to Harvard.‘A GROWTH INDUSTRY’In 1989, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that around five to 10 homeschooled students applied to Harvard yearly.Following the rise...