For the second year in a row, Stanford University topped the list of university fundraisers, bringing in a total of $832 million dollars, an amount that has been exceeded only once, and that by Stanford a year ago. Harvard came in second in the dollar sweepstakes, raising around $614 million according to the Council for [...]
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Although most of the recent news concerning undergraduate admissions has focused on increased competition involving more students applying for the same number of seats, both Yale and Harvard are developing plans to significantly expand the size of their undergraduate classes.
According to Yale president Richard Levin, the university will build additional dorms for two new [...]
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Just when it seems that admissions to the Ivy League couldn’t get any more competitive, it looks like top English students are beginning to look across the Atlantic for educational opportunities. Why? The simple answer appears to be the superior financial aid packages being offered by the best U.S. schools.
With the decline in public support [...]
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Advocates of open access to the scholarly literature won an important battle this week when the faculty of Harvard’s arts and science college agreed to grant the university a license to distribute all of their publications freely over the Internet. The university has committed to the creation of a repository that will make that information [...]
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There’s nothing terribly new in the source article for this note, but it’s a worthy review of the state of play in Washington regarding the endowment payment controversy that is now impacting elite colleges and universities. Certainly, pressure from the Senate has had a significant role in increasing the flow of funds from the largest [...]
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The THES World University Ranking was released late last year by the Times Higher Education Supplement. It attempts to provide a common scheme on which the best universities worldwide may be identified. Number one on this scorecard was Harvard University, followed by a three-way tie for second place involving Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. The U.S. [...]
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Late last year, Business Week reported comments by Harvard President Meg Faust suggesting that state schools that could no longer afford the competition should get out of the hard sciences, favoring the less expensive social sciences instead. President Faust denied making that statement, and the magazine, in a review of the tapes of the interview, [...]
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It’s truly frightening how far someone can get by stealing another person’s identity. The Secret Service has reported the arrest near Chicago of Esther Reed, who is alleged to have assumed the identity of Brook Hensen, a South Carolina resident who has been missing for almost a decade. It is further alleged that Reed then [...]
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It seems that the concept of a higher education endowment gap has realoy taken root in the popular press. How should the Top Tier colleges and universities responsibly exercise control over the huge endowments that ensure their separation from the rest of the higher education universe? To what extent do they owe a debt to [...]
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Although the avalanche of applications inundating the admissions offices of American college and universities might make their directors smile, it does raise some complications. Everyone has a target class size for which they strive; both under-enrollment and over-enrollment can cause real problems for a university and can significantly shorten an admissions director’s tenure. Part of [...]
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