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Following on the tail of recent financial aid expansions by peer institutions like Harvard, Stanford University announced yesterday the largest increase ever in its undergraduate financial aid program. Stanford will no longer charge tuition to families with an annual combined income below $100,000. And like at Harvard and Yale, families earning less than $60,000 will not be expected to contribute to other educational expenses, including room and board. In 2006, Stanford announced that families earning less than $45,000 would be exempt from paying tuition. The new initiative also eliminates the need for student loans by lowering...
...Save the Children, Oxfam and many others announce their presence on cars, offices and projects. But no such flags fly in Baghdad. Not one of these groups has a presence there. Even as levels of violence have gone down - January was the safest month in Baghdad in two years - aid agencies have still been extremely slow to return to the Iraqi capital...
Despite the relative respite from violence, a host of problems confront aid agencies coming to Iraq. In addition to security concerns, they face the mounting problem of donor fatigue and resistance from countries that don't want to be affiliated with an American-led reconstruction effort...
...Aid groups are also hard-pressed to come to a country where a large percentage of budgets must go to protecting foreigners. It is also of deep concern that humanitarian projects cannot be easily monitored because of a lack of security. For the handful of foreign NGOs currently in Baghdad the situation is frustrating, they say, because of the lack of direct contact with their Iraqi beneficiaries. "You are dependent on secondhand information - you could be in Amman or Washington or Paris," says Guy Siri, who says he can count the number of international aid agencies in Baghdad...
...current U.N. mission in Baghdad is tiny. Their cramped offices are located at the end of a series of concrete and razor-wire-lined streets in the Green Zone, accessed through Fijian, Peruvian and Ugandan checkpoints. Meanwhile, UNICEF, the U.N.'s children's aid organization, is the most conspicuously absent. Others, such as the World Health Organization, UNHCR (the U.N.'s refugee agency) and the U.N. Development Programme have between zero and three people in Baghdad at any given time. The security alert for the office is at level four, one stage before evacuation...