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...would be difficult to play down the significance of this year's affair. Assuming that the vast majority of professionals recognize the importance of an event in their field--a rather safe assumption with politicians--one should note that nearly every Democratic incumbent and aspiring officeholder in the Commonwealth came to Springfield last Sunday...
Next year the Commonwealth will lose $67 million in federal aid--a loss that will be exacerbated because the state has never been a generous provider...
...Commonwealth ranks 47th in the nation in appropriations per capita for higher education a study sponsored by the Massachusetts Higher Education Action Council and the state Board of Higher Education shows. The report released this week after two years of preparation, concludes that at a time when the Reagan Administration is proposing unprecedented reductions in federal support for education, it is crucial that Massachusetts provide funding for its students...
...state has already responded to the increased need Gov. Edward I King last January authorized the Commonwealth to float bonds increasing money for student loans. An official for the Association for Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM), a higher education lobbying group said yesterday that while they support the plan, which will start raising funds this summer, "it is only part of the solution...
...appearance raises the question of how much the University may benefit from the proposed program Unlike other schools, such as Emerson College where 70 percent of the students come from the Commonwealth, only a quarter of Harvard undergraduates come from Massachusetts. While no school is heavily dependent on state and, less than $500,000 of the $12.3 million in and the College receives is state money, said Martha C. Lyman, director of financial...