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Despite a years-long push to increase the diversity—economic and otherwise—of incoming classes, admissions and financial aid officials were blind-sided when, in early 1982, the Reagan Administration announced a plan to cut more than $2 billion in federal support for higher education financial...
...assumed that the graphs would continue to go in that upward direction,” says Malin, who stepped in as acting director of financial aid in 1982 after leaving the position a few years earlier. “But we got blind-sided by the federal government making these announcements that hit news wires across the country...
...April 1982—before Harvard learned which of the students accepted to the Class of 1986 would actually matriculate—Fitzsimmons told The Crimson that the 1982 yield could drop because of national economic pressures or rise because some competing colleges had not reaffirmed aid-blind admissions, as Harvard...
...Stetson, who was the dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and remains in the position today, said that his university also had to dip into its own budget in order to preserve its aid-blind admissions policy...
Harvard's need-blind financial aid policies may no longer be threatened by federal funding cuts to higher education, but many of the challenges and controversies experienced at Harvard by the Class of 1982 remain important issues today. Then as now, Harvard's relations with local residents were in the spotlight, with signs of progress and cooperation mixed with discontent and allegations of poor treatment by the University. Today's wrangling over Allston echoes disputes in 1982 over the Medical School's energy plant (MATEP) and the acquisition of land at University Place. The referendum to create a new Undergraduate...