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With this win under its belt, Harvard will challenge Vassar next Saturday in New York...
...says he “was rather impressed” by the search committee’s outreach effort after he attended a dinner in New York organized by Houghton and search committee member Frances D. Fergusson, a member of the Board of Overseers and a former Vassar College president...
Actually, no. And thus begins their higher education about higher education. "The more sophisticated kids who take on the search as a research project, they are getting past the prestige," says Petrella. Students see that schools like Vassar, Lehigh, Colgate and Dickinson really care about the quality of undergraduate life, she says. Since many counselors will advise the more anxious students to apply to at least nine schools (three stretches, three matches and three safeties), students run spreadsheets rating various criteria on a scale of 1 to 10, from the food to the student-teacher ratio to rates of acceptance...
...says he will still be “talking to the search committee.” TABLE TALKThe members of the search committee show no sign of taking the summer off.At the Harvard Club of New York last month, two members of the committee—Houghton and outgoing Vassar College President Frances D. Fergusson, an overseer—worked a room of alums to gather input for the search. Houghton and Fergusson discussed the search process and then opened the floor to questions from the 15 to 20 gathered alumni before splitting up into two tables for dinner...
Although Fonda attended Vassar College, she never actually graduated. “I have nightmares at least once a week about not finishing. I do. It’s clearly something that I don’t feel good about,” she says...