Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third principal issue--the fight to save aid-blind admissions--finds the University seriously considering retrenchment on one of its most praiseworthy policies. To its credit, the admissions office has worked vigorously to protect the aid-blind guarantee--Harvard's assurance over the last 20 years or no that it would make admissions decisions without regard to an applicant's financial need...
...committed to the goal of admitting diverse classes as we hope it is, that statistic alone should provide an impetus for action. Given that admissions committee members believe uncertainty over financial aid was one factor discouraging accepted minorities from coming here, the University should remember that preserving aid-blind admissions and maintaining diversity are but two sides of the same coin, the latter goal unattainable without the former. Harvard should also take a hard look at just why the Black drop-off occurred, examining in particular some students' allegations that an inhospitable racial climate caused the shift...
...says that his teaching career at Harvard began purely by accident, when a position opened up after a professor suddenly became blind. But Finley quickly gained recognition on his own for his speaking style and colorful analyses of Greek figures, most notably the historian Thucydides, who served as the topic of several of Finley's written works. Referring to Finley's "imagined interpretations of such heroic figures as Achilles and Odysseus," longtime colleague Albert Lord '34. Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, emphasizes Finley's "elegance of expression...
...take both educators and congressional aides by surprise. Busloads of students and sacks of letters poured into the capital, university presidents testified before congressional committees and argued with Education Secretary Terrel H. Bell behind closed doors. Financial aid officials who once predicted the necessity of rolling back aid blind admissions and scraping together alternative loan plans this year now note, albeit cautiously, that congressional delays have made it almost inconceivable that sizeable cuts could take effect before October, when next year's final aid and loan applications...
This year, the Faculty did come to the rescue, filling the gap left by departing federal funds, it voted to allocate almost $5 million in unrestricted funds to next year's financial aid budget. In fact, the average aid package offered to the Class of '86, admitted under aid-blind policies, actually increased in absolute terms, almost keeping pace with the rate of college costs increases...