Word: aided
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the University finally acted, it acted ina big way: a 20 percent aid increase, totaling $9million and dwarfing the per-student increases atYale, MIT and Stanford. Harvard's changesimmediately took effect for all students onfinancial aid while the changes at other schoolstook effect only for later classes...
...action shows that regardless of whetherHarvard tried to or not, it was a leader--moraland practical--in developing financial aid policy...
...higher education system. But that is not the way things have to be. The University has led the way before, most recently with President Rudenstine leading the charge to reaffirm diversity in higher education. But other times it has dropped the ball, reacting late to nationwide reforms in financial aid programs and failing to forge real interdisciplinary links (where have all the interfaculty initiatives gone?) and to adopt innovative programs like ethnic studies. I challenge Harvard to lead the way again, to call for large research institutions--the upper elite and foundation of higher education in America--to reaffirm their...
September 16, 1998: Harvard officials announced a $9 million, 20 percent increase in undergraduate financial aid. Harvard's decision follows similar announcements made the previous spring by Princeton, Yale, Stanford and MIT. Harvard's policy is designed to give students more free time in their daily lives at the College. Highlights of the increase include a $2,000 reduction in required student earnings, a change estimated to affect more than 3,100 students, and a rise--from 60 percent to 100 percent--in the amount of outside scholarship money students can use to reduce these required earnings. These changes were...
...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 announced that Associate Director of Financial Aid David P. Illingworth '71 will become the Associate Dean of Harvard College in July. Illingworth's appointment filled the new College administrative structure created by Lewis to replace outgoing Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Illingworth will assume "the overall responsibility for student extracurricular affairs and other aspects of student life," while new Associate Deans Thomas A. Dingman '67 and Georgene B. Herschbach will focus on athletics, advising and health and on finance, technology and classroom space, respectively...