tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30213905.post1063677391079655755..comments2023-12-23T03:16:36.014-05:00Comments on Robert Hansen's Blog: Harvard's and Yale’s Endowments: A Bias to Quality vs. Quantity in Higher Education?Robert G. Hansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08922339441309144396noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30213905.post-11763857482201419752012-02-03T12:34:52.676-05:002012-02-03T12:34:52.676-05:00Harvard is still the best university in America, b...Harvard is still the best university in America, but it lacks of spirit.viagra onlinehttp://www.mutualpharmacy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30213905.post-18629109033716101362008-09-07T21:28:00.000-05:002008-09-07T21:28:00.000-05:00We are not talking about making HPY into "Universi...We are not talking about making HPY into "University of Florida or Berkeley." We are talking about relatively minor expansions (25%+/). When I applied to college, a 4.0, together with a great SAT, was virtually a guaranteed admit to HPY, but as the author points out, these same students are routinely rejected by all ivies today. The capacity to educate should expand commensurately with the capacity of the potential student population to meet the rigorous standards of HPY.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30213905.post-16464748405531910492008-08-25T18:54:00.000-05:002008-08-25T18:54:00.000-05:00Well, what I don't understand is why there is such...Well, what I don't understand is why there is such a great necessity to expand among the top schools. HYP pride themselves in a tight-knitted community, do they really need to expand to a student body like the University of Florida or Berkeley? What's more, the overall quality of universities have significantly increased in the past several decades, so it is not necessary to attend HYP to have a successful career either. Schools such as HYPSMC are known to be extremely selective, that is known and accepted by everyone. Is it so necessary to change that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30213905.post-44404906284975416122008-03-19T16:38:00.000-05:002008-03-19T16:38:00.000-05:00Your argument needs a little more research in the ...Your argument needs a little more research in the case of HYP. First, all of them are trying to expand, let's put that forward... it's a top institutional priority in many ways for all three. Princeton just built a huge new residential college at great expense, to increase enrollment; Yale is currently ignoring all student opinion to the contrary and its Trustees (NOT faculty, trustees are the final word on things) are generally supportive of the President, who has had college expansion on the agenda for years and years. Adding 2 new residential colleges to Yale would not be completed for many years to come and is budgeted at having a direct cost of 600 million dollars. That is an ENORMOUS sum. The reason why it has not been done sooner is because there is literally NO LAND in new haven on which to site the colleges until relatively recently / the funds have not been available / other priorities have been pursued first. But that's 600 million UP FRONT, when factoring in the necessary expansions in cost for the student body increases, additional faculty and facility expansions, etc etc etc... you easily see how it is such a tremendously expensive proposition. It isn't a possibility to just throw up some high rise apartment buildings without tragically undermining the same education which they wish to expand. And Harvard, well--their plans are in many ways the most sweeping of all, having outlined basically a 50 year expansion plan to take over half of Allston and chunks of Boston with a mega-expansion.<BR/><BR/>So... that's just to start. The issues you talk about ARE at work but they are significantly more complicated!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com