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...years, HFAI has also tried to engage the campus in discussion on issues surrounding access to higher education through academic speakers. But this year, HFAI??€™s student coordinators are trying to bring in a fresh array of speakers—such as Howard—who hail from fields one might not normally associate with the issue of educational equity. Their efforts represent not only HFAI??€™s innovative involvement with students under the Initiative once they arrive to Harvard, but also HFAI??€™s increased outreach to the campus as a whole...
...speakers series represents one of the many efforts of HFAI to increase its profile on Harvard’s campus. Leaders of the Initiative are now considering increasing the Phillips Brooks House Association’s involvement in HFAI??€™s outreach efforts as well as creating an online guide for living on a budget that could be constantly updated...
Summers announced HFAI??€”a program aimed at reducing low-to-moderate income students’ economic barriers to attending Harvard College—in 2004 when he was president of the University...
Conti-Brown, who had worked informally with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid and then-University President Lawrence H. Summers on the project, would become HFAI??€™s 2004-2005 undergraduate director. He and a group of other students pushed hard for the recruiting of students from more disadvantaged backgrounds. HFAI student coordinators spent the summer after HFAI was announced calling thousands of low-income students across the students, encouraging them to apply regardless of concerns about Harvard’s high price...
...making sure students can afford to come to Harvard was not HFAI??€™s only concern. A far more difficult problem would be to make sure that these students would feel comfortable at Harvard where social and cultural differences, stemming from but not limited to economic factors, may abound. And the Horatio Alger-esque myth of students skyrocketing into a world of privilege the moment they enter Harvard’s gates might not prove true for many who come from disadvantaged backgrounds...