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...seeking input from students, faculty, and staff to ensure that the self-study accurately reflects the community’s experience,” Dean Lamberth wrote in an e-mail after the meeting. One concern raised by student representatives at Wednesday’s meeting was whether the report??which makes no mention of social organizations like final clubs and sororities—captures the tendency of extracurricular and social life on campus to bleed together. But Lamberth pointed out in her e-mail that the reaccredidation standards do not inquire about social life, and that...
...teacher quality and student achievement. “A lot of policies are more harmful to teacher quality than they are helpful,” she said. Jacobs said that although the poor results were not surprising to the Council, she is confident that if states institute the report??s regulatory recommendations, teacher quality and student performance can improve. “We’re pretty confident that we’re not proposing pie in the sky recommendations that cannot be implemented at the state level,” she said. Jonathan E. Palumbo, education press...
...research. “His election is an honor especially for someone as young as him,” he said. Stone is 49. Stone will be departing to teach at Princeton—ranked number 12 among undergraduate engineering programs in 2008 by U.S. News and World Report??next semester, but his colleagues assert his election still holds significance for Harvard, ranked 33. Engineering professor James R. Rice said the honor “raises the visibility level” of the relatively young School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Membership in the NAE is considered...
...percent by the end of the fiscal year on June 30.While the Task Force’s report will need to be subject to some financial concessions, Faust said, Harvard is making “a small beginning” to ensure that the University capitalizes on the report??s momentum.Faust did not mention increasing investments in physical spaces for arts creation and collaboration—one of the Task Force’s major recommendations—but announced that the administration is moving forward with other Task Force goals.Following the Task Force’s emphasis...
...good fit for students. Instead of referring to these rankings, students should do their own research and take into consideration available statistics such as acceptance rates, in addition to other factors such as campus visits, when making college decisions. The influential role of US News and World Report??s rankings stems from the nearly universal participation of schools in the United States, as only a handful of institutions choose to remove themselves from ranking consideration each year. Despite an increase in the number of schools opting out of the publication’s annual rankings, the majority...