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Moreover, given the improvements in financial aid policy announced by these three schools in the past month--changes which Harvard has not answered with a plan of its own--Harvard risks falling behind the pack and losing many middle-and lower-income applicants...
...time for Harvard to be innovative. Though financial aid and admissions officers have declined comment, both President Neil L. Rudenstine and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles have acknowledged the need to act. In a letter to the editor, Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox, Jr. reported that at the Feb. 10 FAS Faculty Meeting, Dean Knowles said, "[T]he scrutiny of financial aid...is of course, made more pressing by the recent actions, for example, of Princeton and Yale...We must...ensure that the students we admit not only can but do come...
Princeton, Yale and Stanford have made a private college education more affordable in response to the fact that an increasing number of top students are opting for public colleges and universities for financial reasons. In response, the institutions have increased financial aid by providing more grants and by disregarding at least $90,000 of family assets in calculating financial aid. Harvard could spend just 1 percent more of its endowment and actually decrease tuition. This would still involve endowment spending comparable to that of other similar institutions...
Duke, the only other school in the U.S. News and World Report's top five not to announce financial aid reform, already eases the financial uncertainty by freezing fees for each class at the level when they are admitted--a simple change that, if enacted here, would take some of the sting out of Knowles' yearly tuition pronouncements...
...more than enough cases to keep the wolf from his door in years to come. However, it seems the country?s most famous medical malpractice attorney has his eyes on the kind of legal defense fund that President Clinton has established to fight his various litigious campaigns. Perhaps aid will be forthcoming from a grateful Vernon Jordan, who received a glowing testimonial from Ginsburg: ?Mr. Jordan was very kind, very gracious and arranged some interviews with prominent companies,? said Monica?s attorney, denying any quid pro quo in the Clinton confidant?s relationship with Lewinsky. Sounds like Ginsburg could write...