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Even colleges with significantly more restrictive study-abroad policies manage to ship off far higher numbers of students. The University of Pennsylvania, for example, requires its study-abroad students to fork over to its institution??s coffers the difference in cash they would otherwise be saving by studying at international universities, which are usually cheaper. University of Pennsylvania study-abroad students consistently number over 600 a year...
...place as president,” Bartels says. “They have a definite part in shaping it, and it’s not surprising that this affects people’s decisions—no one was thinking otherwise.”A ‘SHALLOW INSTITUTION???But for some donors outraged by what they perceive as Summers’ ouster, even the installation of a permanent president may not be enough to return them to the table. Donor James B. Davis ’75, the founder of Practice Management Information Corporation, an independent...
...doing is telling people what you want them to know, you’re not doing a complete job,” she said. “What is so important on the public relations side is creating that climate where people feel good about the institution??and I don’t mean that in a warm-and-fuzzy feel-good way, but that people feel that this is a trusted institution, this is a transparent institution.” —Staff writer Anton S. Troianovski can be reached at atroian@fas.harvard.edu...
...among others. With a bevy of talented architects, it should have no trouble outdoing those designs that speak to the future without nodding to the past. If the University is truly serious about shifting Harvard’s center toward Allston and making it the flagship campus of the institution??and perhaps, of the nation—it cannot afford to make it anonymously contemporary. Allston must be imaginative and dramatic, iconic of a new era for America’s oldest university. It needs landmarks, an instantly recognizable style: a Memorial Hall or a Widener Library...
...came to Harvard. She will be a writer long after she leaves this campus. That she happens to be a Harvard student for these four years of her life should not strip her of her personal identity. She should be held accountable, above all, to herself, not to an institution??even if that institution, at least in the public eye, defines her first. In her (dubious) authorship of “Opal Mehta,” we should see Viswanthan as a writer first, and a Harvard student second...