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...despite the deterioration in Harvard’s current financial position and the losses to its endowment, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that the University is “well-positioned to help students and families...
...think we were very fortunate to be able to expand our financial aid program last year,” Donahue said. “When we launched the initiative last year, it was because we knew that families were feeling very stretched...
University President Drew G. Faust affirmed the University’s commitment to financial aid in November just before she announced the Harvard’s endowment had seen the largest decline in its history...
...middle-income initiative was felt across higher education, with Yale quickly following suit with a similar financial program. Stanford also expanded its aid program to make tuition free for families making less than $100,000 and other elite universities—including those in the Ivy League, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago—quickly followed suit...
...which has essentially had no oversight since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted in 1991. In the years since, Somalia has become the site of one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters; more than a third of the country's 9.5 million people now rely on emergency food aid. Much of that aid isn't getting through because pirates operating off the Somali coast have perfected the business of seizing ships on their way to the Gulf of Aden. The country has also become a no-go zone for foreign aid workers, who are easy kidnapping targets. (See pictures...