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...College Sustainability Report, the only independent evaluation of universities?? campus and endowment sustainability measures, is issued annually online in order to make aggregate information about universities?? green-ness easily accessible to the public...
These increases, in addition to upward trends in each of the nine sub-divisions, are “very encouraging” and point toward a nation-wide surge in universities?? sustainable practices, according to Olowski...
...that test scores are not the only measure of a school’s success. Leslie T. DiTrani, who has children who attend Cambridge public schools, said she felt that Fowler-Finn’s emphasis on scores overlooked ongoing problems, such as the under-usage of neighboring universities?? resources and the ongoing achievement gap among low-income and minority students. In 2007, there was a 30 percent difference in scores between black and white students in English, and a 37 percent difference in Math...
...Executive Dean Louise M. Richardson was named the next leader of the University of St. Andrews, the Radcliffe Institute announced yesterday. Richardson, a leading scholar on terrorism and political violence, will be the first woman to serve as principal and vice chancellor—the Scottish equivalent of American universities?? president—at St. Andrews, one of seven “ancient universities?? starting January 2009. Richardson’s selection as principal is pathbreaking because she is not a Scot, she is not from within St. Andrews, and she is not male...
More importantly, this sort of amendment would have given life to the practice of the state penalizing monetarily successful universities??namely Harvard—for being just that. Only eight schools in Massachusetts have endowments over $1 billion: Harvard, MIT, Williams, Boston College, Amherst, Wellesley, Tufts, and Boston University. But with a $34.9 billion endowment, Harvard would see the greatest payout by far. The university with the next-largest endowment, MIT, has $9.98 billion...