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...control over which colleges can award diplomas or receive federal financial aid for their students would have interfered with academic freedom, he said. Another measure modified in the final legislation would have forced colleges to accept students’ transfer credits, even if the courses taken did not reach colleges?? academic standards, Pals added. Last reauthorized in 1998, the Higher Education Act may be debated in the Senate as early as this month, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...seems consistent with the philosophy of multilateralism and democratic dialogue. Even a casual observer of Saturday’s concert would have perceived a decidedly dovish tenor to the sobering words said on stage. The Iran Freedom Concert at Harvard will be repeated in coming months at other progressive colleges??Duke, Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford. The events are a great sign of increasing student activism and student commitment to open forum. The mantra of the concerts should be a model for students, politicians, and citizens everywhere...
...would argue that the chances of a great payoff from the impending Harvard degree are much greater than any potential payoff of playing college sports at a “big-time” Division I school. While graduation rates stagger at many well-recognized D-I colleges??in part at the hands of student-athletes who won’t go on to play professionally—the student-athlete at Harvard is almost guaranteed to earn a degree. After all, Harvard’s graduation rate stands at 97 percent. And that degree won?...
However, Bok argues that the sluggishness of colleges?? progress is a problem of method, not of intention. Faculty are not apathetic or lazy, he writes, only ignorant of research identifying active teaching methods as superior to the old-fashioned lecture. He writes that “faculties seem inclined to use research and experimentation to understand and improve every institution, process and human activity except their...
...Kent Cooke Foundation will commit a combined $27 million to increase the transfer of low-income community college students to selective four-year institutions over the next four years, the foundation announced yesterday. The Cooke Foundation—an education foundation dedicated to funding low-income students at elite colleges??gave a $6.78 million grant to three public and five private highly selective institutions. The participating schools, which were selected from a pool of 48, are University of California-Berkeley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Michigan-Anne Arbor, Cornell, Bucknell, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst...