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University Health Services’ biyearly student health assessment??which was distributed to undergraduates last Friday via e-mail—has undergone noteworthy revisions since it was last administered...
...rankings twist highly subjective and qualitative data into quantitative terms, with enormously flawed results. For example, surveys sent to college officials asking for ratings of other college and university reputations—disingenuously called “peer assessment?? by U.S. News—counts for 25 percent of the overall ranking. Not only do many of these officials know little about their peer institutions, but they also have an adverse incentive to downgrade their competitors...
...move, which in lieu of the traditional system of letter grades will allow four levels of assessment??honors pass, pass, low pass, and fail—is intended, according to Kagan's e-mail, to "promote pedagogical excellence and innovation and further strengthen the intellectual community...
Second, the number of students who report, at one time or another, feeling significantly depressed at Harvard during their four years here mirrors the national data reported in the National College Health Assessment??namely close to 50 percent. This has been consistent over a number of years. Therefore it is not simply a Harvard phenomenon, but a product of age and difficulties arising from significant changes and challenges...
...reasons for paying an extra $10 are blowing in the wind. Today scientists—most recently an eight nation group called the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment??mostly agree that the release of carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere has caused a greenhouse effect like never before, resulting in not only increased temperatures, but also in increased frequency of extreme weather events, such as floods and droughts...