On behalf of fellow students in their position, Anna McNeil (20), Eliana Singer (19), and Ry Walker (20) have sued Yale University for its fraternities. In their claim lodged in court this month, the women (who study art history, political science, and ...
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Would you pay to study law at the University of Melbourne if it cost only a third more at Harvard? In Australia, this financial gap is set to decrease, if trends continue. Study Move has identified that international student fees ...
More »As Ivy League colleges diversify, a Mackay, QLD native gains admission
This year, Harvard admitted a record high 20.3 per cent of students from modest or low-income backgrounds. Also, for the first time in a decade, a majority (50.1 per cent) of its admissions were female. There’s even an argument it's becoming so diverse it's ...
More »Harvard suggests admission process a ‘trade secret’ as discrimination lawsuit simmers
One of the world's most prestigious universities, Harvard, also has a dark, complicated past. Though the university was founded in 1636, its Medical School only offered admission to its first three black students in 1850, but subsequently rescinded these offers. Then, in the 1920s, its ...
More »How to crack the Ivy League, from an expert at it
Warner Huntington III: You got into Harvard Law? Elle: What? Like it's hard? Elle Woods, the protagonist in the 2001 film Legally Blonde, would have you believe being admitted to the Ivy League - a group of eight, elite US universities - ...
More »Harvard may not go Greek for much longer
In popular culture, there's nothing that signifies the American college experience more than fraternities and sororities. Now, perhaps America's most famed university, Harvard, is considering banning them. In a recently-released 22-page report, a Harvard faculty committee has recommended that, from 2018, ...
More »Harvard urges open access publishing
A committee of senior Harvard academics has urged the university’s staff to publish in open access journals amid concern that the cost of journal subscriptions is becoming “untenable”. In an email sent to all Harvard faculty members last week, Harvard’s ...
More »Harvard academic to be next Macquarie VC
Professor S. Bruce Dowton has been appointed the next vice-chancellor and president of Macquarie University. He succeeds Professor Steven Schwartz who has led the north-western Sydney university for six years. Dowton is currently clinical professor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical ...
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