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...star player secure victories in both of these events. With victories in the 96-player singles draw and the 24-pair doubles draw, the senior did just this. Clayton played with sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans in the doubles draw. Over the course of the six day event, the eastern universities?? top contenders competed at Yale University’s Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in an attempt to qualify for the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships scheduled to be held Nov. 6-9. As its title suggests, this championship is the most prestigious collegiate tournament held each fall. With...
Despite months of market turmoil, Harvard’s endowment returned 8.6 percent for the year ending June 30, growing to $36.9 billion—the largest endowment total in higher education. Many other wealthy universities??including Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT—have seen their endowments grow, albeit at a slower pace, even as the stock market has crashed...
...Internal Revenue Service will request new financial data from 400 colleges and universities??potentially including Harvard—in an effort to further study the financial practices of the tax-exempt schools, the agency announced this week...
...discussion panel, titled “The (dis)Advantages of an Elite Education,” was based on Deresiewicz’s controversial article of the same name, published in The American Scholar magazine, which focused on the flaws in liberal arts education in prestigious universities??what Deresiewicz called “Ivy retardation.” The two main disadvantages of elite education, Deresiewicz wrote in the article, are that it makes students incapable of interacting with people unlike them, and that it instills a false sense of self-worth in them. He wrote that...
...rankings, the University has been ranked number one again—this time for its brand. The rankings, released earlier this month by Global Language Monitor, a company that uses quantitative methods to analyze the impact of language on society, are based on the number of times colleges and universities?? names were mentioned in both print and electronic global media over the past nine months. Indicating that prestige and media coverage seem to be correlated, six of the universities on the Global Language Monitor list also made the U.S. News top ten. Global Language Monitor President Paul Payack...