Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jewett, who took the year off from day-to-day admissions duties to study the chances and implications of adhering to the aid-blind approach, spent much of the spring going from House to House for dinner, talking to groups of students. One of his main questions was how much students felt it was worth straining to adhere to the ideal. How much more, he asked, could the available money be spread (in the form of work-study and loans rather than grants) before the pressure of a work-study job outweighed the benefits of being here...
...course we're doing a job for ourselves too," O'Brien says of aid-blind's benefits, "Our faculty likes to have bright students, they like to have diversity. But if we fail to make the more fundamental argument. I think we are missing the best reason of all." Direct Aid Given by Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges Year Pell Grants (federal) Faculty Unrestricted Funds Radcliffe Funds Mass. State Grants 1979-80 $1,375,000 $1,953,000 $430,000 $162,000 1980-81 $1,228,771 $2,134,000 $381,000 $215,000 1981-82 (estimated) $1 million...
...applicants to the the Class of '86 whose parents did not attend college. Interpreting the drop as a communications gap--students from working-class backgrounds wrongly assumed they could not afford Harvard and eliminated themselves from the applicant pool without finding out that Harvard had maintained its aid-blind policy--Fitzsimmons echoes the its aid-blind policy--Fitzsimmons echoes the alarm voiced by the Coalition for Student Aid (CSA), a newly formed student group to combat the cuts threat...
...sought-after 15 minutes of lobbying time, only to have the secretary ask, almost casually, what he thought the role of the federal government in education should be. O'Brien, in defending financial aid as a priority for university money, similarly sticks to that level of discourse, calling aid-blind admissions a symbol of "the promise that higher education has assumed as its burden--the promise of democracy, that able people can get ahead...
...instance, he rejects as simpleminded others criticism that the Corporation. Harvard's equivalent of a board of directors cannot adequately represent the entire University because it is composed solely of white males. Launching Corporation actions during the last decade he observes that since 1970 the University has adopted sex-blind admissions and financial aid policies instituted full athletic opportunities for women and tried to protect the rights of minorities "The idea that you can't expect a group of white males to make anything but white male decisions is a piece of political oversimplification which has really gone pretty...