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...decade—predating the 2004 Massachusetts state law permitting same-sex marriages—according to Director of Communication for Human Resources Mary Ann O’Brien. “I would say that faculty and staff in general receive a comprehensive, progressive, and generous package of benefits intended to support their wellbeing, their security, and their work life balance,” O’Brien said. “I think Harvard is doing really well in terms of meeting and exceeding most standards for benefits across the board...
...eventually accepted to Harvard, MIT, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Miami, Washington University in St. Louis, Carnegie Mellon, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, and Olin College of Engineering. Morales was faced with a decision he had not initially anticipated, choosing between some of the best engineering programs in the country. Generous financial aid packages came back from nearly every school on his list, including Harvard. Ultimately, Morales chose Olin over Harvard because of the strength of Olin’s engineering program—not its tuition-covering scholarship. In fact, with room and board, Morales pays more at his tuition...
Starting next school year, hundred of Harvard students could enjoy more generous financial aid packages thanks to a new law that will lower interest rates on federal loans and increase the size of grants for needy students. President Bush on Thursday signed into law a $20 billion increase in federal financial aid, boosting the size of some Pell Grants by up to $1,100 per year and gradually cutting the interest rates of federally subsidized loans from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent. The Pell Grant, a form of financial aid given to more than 5 million low-income students each...
...highly endowed colleges are in fact the ones doing the most to support affordability among the individuals that go there,” Casey said in an interview. “Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have been using significant methods to bring down tuition. They already are the most generous. It may not be the best thing for Congress to dictate the formulas by which student financial aid and endowment spend out should be connected.” But advocates of closer regulation argue that students are not benefiting from universities’ increasing wealth. Citing her findings...
...colleges—the Harvard Financial Aid Office, for example, provides aid in the form of loans. There’s no reason that students should have to take out additional loans, however, when medical schools could simply lower their application fees, or, at the very least, be more generous in giving waivers...