Word: burdenered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bureaucracy in the way of petitions for credit. Thankfully, today, much of the frustrating hurdles have been done away with, and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administrators can be found eagerly pleading with students to go abroad through brochures, fairs, and advising. Nevertheless, more can be done. Financial burden still too often inhibits students desiring to study abroad from actually venturing out of Cambridge. Harvard-sponsored programs, regardless of their locations, have Harvardian price tags. The summer programs, which last from three to six weeks, cost between $4,500 and $7,700, excluding airfare, a health insurance...
...impress by sharing them.Most, but not all. Harvard’s financial aid policy currently requires all students receiving support from the College to contribute $2,000 from their summer earnings to the cost of their next year of schooling. This policy, while not entirely unreasonable, places an undue burden on students receiving financial aid, and encourages them to forgo nonpaying positions in favor of salaried summer jobs.Director of Financial Aid Sally C. Donahue frames the College’s expected contribution more favorably. “Summer opportunities are really not limited by expected summer income contribution...
...said author and playwright William A. Strauss ’69, an outspoken critic of the HMC compensation structure. “The amount they are paying these individuals is enough that you could take some of that money and have a tuition freeze, to substantially reduce the debt burden on students from middle and working class families...
...Burden said he is leaving Harvard for this reason...
...denied tenure so I had no choice but to go at some point,” said Burden. “That has been a very consistent pattern in the department, especially in American politics...