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...take a remedial preparation course before the summer retest date. At the very least, it is imperative that these courses be available across the state to all failing students. If the state requires this test—and makes it difficult for students who fail to matriculate at state universities??then the state must give students every opportunity to pass...
...cuts to higher education, the plan is sensitive to the function of the university system—to provide a quality education to all students. Moreover, cuts to higher education comparable to those of other departments are fair. In the past, governors have often left cuts vague or targeted universities?? general funds, leaving choices up to college administrators—who usually reduce every budget except for their own. Romney has taken a different tack; he has called for a program that would completely restructure the public universities?? administration, while making them more self-sufficient...
Harvard recently placed first in a “Revealed Preference Ranking of US Colleges and Universities?? in a paper by Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby and others. They found that students who were accepted to a number of schools choose to matriculate at Harvard most frequently—Yale and Stanford came in a close second and third. And they found that public schools with much lower tuition bills don’t have the same power to draw students. Berkeley, the highest public school on the revealed preference ranking, comes in 29th...
...University of Michigan case currently before the Supreme Court, the question of the acceptability of affirmative action is again at stake. Once again, Harvard has been eloquent in its defense and explanation of its practice, and the brief it filed has been co-signed by numerous other colleges and universities??showing wide agreement by schools on this issue...
Harvard’s six-month extension could allow Harvard to learn from other colleges’ and universities?? experiences with the brand-new system, Ladd says...