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...find ourselves with the opportunity to have spent four years at Harvard College. It speaks volumes about the inherent goodness in a place that inspires us to spend more time playing the GirlTalk blame game than actually studying. When we’re always getting worked up over the small stuff, it seems to be a good indication that the heart and soul of the University is solid...
Schools built by small, grass-roots NGOs operate on the inverse theory of change, striving to revolutionize the local status quo rather than affect national or global change. Usually rural instead of urban and almost always consistent with government standards, schools built by organizations like Achieve-in-Africa, BuildAfrica, Ripple Africa, and Schools-for-Africa are intensely local, both in terms of curriculum and culture. Such schools do not guarantee a college education; they simply equip girls to maximize their impact in their hometowns by holding jobs outside the home and ensuring the education of the next generation of girls...
...Leadership Academy” and the “Local Village School” models. Within this philanthropic portfolio, the leadership academy functions as a venture investment—expensive, risky, but with the potential to pay unprecedented dividends. Such potential is attached to a small number of graduates and hinges on the expectation that each graduate will affect real change in her native country. On the other hand, the smaller, more localized school is akin to a safe stock: By partnering with local people and government, these schools guarantee that their graduates will be accepted into, and strengthen...
...typifies what we like to talk about here in SEAS as the very multidisciplinary type of researcher,” Welsh said. “With the small number of faculty [in the electrical engineering department], bridges...
Born on Dec. 17, 1917 in a small factory town in upper New York, Frederick R. Witherby '40 is probably the oldest Harvard alum coming to this year's reunions...