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...close to the nationwide Native American population, 1.5 percent, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. According to a recent newsletter from the Harvard University Native American Native American Program (HUNAP), there are 56 Native American students currently enrolled.Much of the recent success can be attributed to the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), said Roger Banks, Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP) director and senior admissions officer. HFAI waives tuition for families earning less than $40,000 annually and reduces the contributions of families making less than $60,000. UMRP has encouraged minority students to apply to Harvard and has worked...
Tavrow created two programs, one to aid the development of a sister university in sub-Saharan Africa and the other to provide money for sponsoring African graduate students studying at Harvard...
...Japan has been doling out aid to developing members of the IWC, such as the Pacific islands of Nauru and Tuvalu, to line up support ahead of the annual meeting in St. Kitts and Nevis this June. "If the pro-whaling forces succeed in achieving a simple majority this year," says Australia's Environment Minister, Ian Campbell, who locked horns with Japanese delegates last year, "it'll set back the cause of conservation." For one thing, Japan will be able to put an end to those pesky condemnations of its scientific quota. Ending the moratorium, however, would require the support...
...majority of those families choose to homeschool their children for religious reasons. But even as the homeschooling trend takes root nationwide, a disproportionately tiny number of these students ever win entry to Harvard.‘A GROWTH INDUSTRY’In 1989, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that around five to 10 homeschooled students applied to Harvard yearly.Following the rise in the number of homeschoolers nationwide, between 100 and 200 homeschooled students applied to Harvard this year, says Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis...
...universities. For a time, most of the country's ?lite officials, scholars and scientists were U.S.-trained. But that came to an abrupt halt with the Communists' victory in 1949. A year later, Sino-American relations hit their nadir during what Chinese call the "War to Resist America and Aid Korea," which left hundreds of thousands of Chinese dead, along with more than 50,000 Americans. Later, during the convulsions of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, the U.S. was routinely reviled as China's greatest enemy...