What is required to succeed at University?
In 1986, Derek Bok, then the president of Harvard, summoned a professor at the Graduate School of Education and asked him to evaluate how well the university educated its students and ways it might improve. Why, Dr. Bok wanted to know, did some students have a great experience while others did not? The professor, Richard J. Light, a statistician by training, gathered colleagues and deans from 24 other institutions to examine the question and come up with a scientific method to find the answer. … Professor Light has gathered the best ideas in a book, “Making the Most of College” (Harvard University Press, 2001). The suggestions are often simple. [“The Harvard Guide to Happiness” by Kate Zernike, New York Times, April 8, 2001].
