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...year, at least in regard to public relations; it has been largely smooth sailing since. Lewis's only recent gaffe was the decision to split the role of Dean of Students into three smaller posts, rather than appoint an energetic new dean. Further, the administration's generous new financial aid policy has made Harvard a leader in that field as well, despite rising tuition. Verdict: Better to even...
Your recent editorial, "Give Us Our Money" (Editorial, May 14), seriously misrepresents Harvard's financial aid policies and practices, as well the relationship between Harvard's aid programs and those offered by the federal government...
Twenty years ago federal scholarship aid, including Pell grants, represented nearly twenty percent of the College's scholarship budget. Today federal scholarship aid accounts for less than six percent of the College's scholarship program. In other words, as the needs of Harvard's scholarship students have risen, the College, not the federal government, has borne the full cost of meeting those increased needs...
...worth noting as well, and as your initial article on Pell funding correctly reported, there are complex, extensive and occasionally arcane federal regulations governing precisely how much financial aid individual students can receive. In most instances we are required to reduce institutional financial aid as students receive additional federal funds. The College could allow students next year to "benefit from the Pell grant increase," but it would be illegal in many cases...
...hard to sort out how much of the millions of dollars raised overseas is spent for weapons and how much for humanitarian aid. K.L.A. fund raisers in the U.S. insist that the money they contribute to Homeland Calling is used for medical supplies and food. But last year the Swiss government froze one Homeland Calling bank account because Salihu refused to promise its funds would not be used to buy arms...