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...During his tenure as president, the New England Conservatory created a joint-degree program with Harvard, increased financial aid, and hired many renowned professors. In his last three years as president, Steiner helped raise $72 million of a $100 million capital campaign...
Noting the College’s recent financial aid initiative—which, under Summers’ leadership, has eliminated the parental contribution for families with incomes below $60,000 per year—Summers said that financial aid has become a “University-wide” initiative...
...exert leadership. At the same time, I think Harvard and particularly its Faculty of Arts and Sciences face profound issues of governance, particularly with regard to bringing the University together, if we’re to move forward as strongly as we possibly can on priorities like financial aid, like addressing major social concerns like global warming and education, priorities like taking advantage of the life sciences revolution, and opportunities like Allston...
...think these are extremely interesting long-term trends,” Goldin says. “All the while, boys were disadvantaged, and nobody noticed it.”AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR MEN?Well, at least one college has noticed it. The dean of admissions and financial aid at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, Jennifer Delahunty Britz, wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in March describing her school’s efforts to maintain a male-female balance. She wrote that 55 percent of applicants to Kenyon are women, “a proportion that...
...over its permanence and whether it can take the place of a benevolent Office of the President.BALANCING THE BOOKSThe Harvard College Fund (HCF), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ main source for alumni donations, has traditionally allowed donors to designate their gifts for faculty support, libraries, financial aid, or graduate fellowships.Alumni may also contribute funds for unrestricted use.The HCF’s 2005 Annual Report states that 31,325 donors contributed a total of nearly $80 million last academic year to the fund.Though the Office of Alumni Affairs and Development—which administers the College Fund?...