1.   By these measures it sought to ensure that direct entry and thesis-entry members were at least of an equivalent calibre to student graduates.

2.   A new policy prohibits professors from active participation in such ventures until three months after students graduate, and bars informal discussions beforehand.

3.   Each year about eight black students graduate in the United States with doctorates in physics.

4.   Less than a quarter of the students graduate within four years.

5.   Ms. Cook-Tench says one big challenge is dissuading guest lecturers from raiding her classes before students graduate.

6.   Only half of New York City high school students graduate within four years, a number that has remained remarkably unchanged for a decade.

7.   Reckoning with high schools in which barely half the students graduate with their class, Chancellor Rudy Crew has proposed halting social promotion in the lower grades.

8.   The goal, he said, is to eventually see students graduate who know two languages.

9.   The report also recommends enforcing the requirement, now routinely waived, that students graduate from the bilingual program into mainstream classes within three years.

10.   The report also found that contrary to national data, black and Hispanic students graduate from Massachusetts public colleges and universities in the same proportion they enroll.