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...over what you see - have been in a self-reflective mood. Not only is Wikipedia slowing, but also new stats suggest that hard-core participants are a pretty homogeneous set - the opposite of the ecumenical wiki ideal. Women, for instance, make up only 13% of contributors. The project's annual conference in Buenos Aires this summer bustled with discussions about the numbers and how the movement can attract a wider class of participants...
Still, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences needs to close its remaining $110 million annual deficit. After staff layoffs, salary freezes, and very slow faculty hiring, where will it cut next...
...said Bernal "Anything we do costs money. The question is: what are our priorities? Public education is a fundamental cornerstone of democracy in America. Without it only the well-to-do will receive the education and skills you need to take leadership positions in society." When Washington Monthly's annual college rankings, released this month, rated 258 universities according to contributions to the public good, U.C. Berkeley came in first, U.C. San Diego ranked second and UCLA ranked third. The rankings are on three broad categories: social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship...
Quiz time: Which of the following provisions has been tucked into the most closely watched health-care bill on Capitol Hill thanks to Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine? Is it a) an annual checkup for every Medicare beneficiary, b) a special health-insurance marketplace in every state that would cater to the needs of small businesses or c) new tax credits to help modest-size firms buy coverage for their workers...
These shortcomings of competence and diversity are both annual and entrenched, but not impossible to remedy. The administration might try publicizing the position more widely to attract new candidates for the application, or it might move the application deadline from the spring to the fall so that the position would draw interest from students who still have all their options open. It might look outside of the Harvard undergraduate population for a more experienced event planner to hire; the additional salary expenses would be more than offset in money saved by avoiding needless monetary waste. Most radically, University Hall might...