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Many figures regarding higher education in America are encouraging: As of 2005, there were over eight million students attending four-year colleges, and that number is expected to increase by 16 percent by the year 2014. There are other numbers, however, that are depressing. These pertain to college loans, which are steadily increasing. Private lenders saw a 734 percent increase between 1993 and 2003 in the money they loaned to students, and it is these private loans compared to federal loans that have much higher interest rates and less flexible payments. About 15 percent of students at four-year colleges...
...differences in the relationship between schools and their parent universities. “Schools within Harvard are very independent,” says Jones. “At Stanford, we have seven schools, but the schools are not as independent of the central university. All of the policies that pertain to faculty pertain to all faculty.” Jones also cited a difference in tenure policy as a potential cause for the differences. “At Stanford, every faculty member who is hired has a tenured position waiting for them if they meet the requirements...
...issues at first. “I think mayors, more than any other elected officials in the country, have an opportunity to change the quality of life in their communities,” he said. “At first, you wind up spending your influence doing things that pertain to local issues.” As for Clark, the mayor-elect from Greeley, he may be in for a surprise upon his return to Colorado—McKinnon isn’t giving up on their chat on environmentalism. “I am planning on e-mailing...
...haute fashion magazine Runway. She has just made some forgivable beginner's mistake in her new job as Miranda's second assistant - the one who brings in the coffee and picks up the dry cleaning - and she is, incidentally, not fat by any standards other than those that pertain in the skin-and-bones world of high-gloss women's publications. She is, however, smart - especially in The Devil Wears Prada's early going - when she's wearing her ratty working journalist clothes and sporting her total ignorance of, and contempt for, the deeply silly values Runway promotes. In context...
...undefined notion of behavior befitting of a Harvard student imposes a higher expectation of conduct (simply because of the Harvard name) without making clear what actions can knock us off that high ground. While we hope that Ad Board limits its scope solely to those actions that pertain to our lives as Harvard students, even more crucial is its explicit delineation of what actions warrant its intervention...