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...During HFAI??€™s implementation, Mueller says, there were plans for a mentorship program, but it fizzled out because of a lack of student interest...
...HFAI is not simply limited to financial aid—it is also a recruitment program designed to attract more applicants from lower income brackets. Our recruitment efforts fall under several categories, including almuni involvement, community outreach, and recruitment by HFAI??€™s seven student coordinators who make thousands of phone calls and send e-mails to prospective students from search lists. But since only so much can be done over the phone or on the internet, during breaks we send 20 HFAI undergraduates on recruitment trips to their hometowns to visit local high schools and middle schools...
...other alternatives are paying out-of-state tuition for an elite public university. Where Harvard continues to fail, however, is in providing an acceptable level of financial aid to middle-income families. These families, which make between $110,000 and $200,000 a year, have been excluded entirely from HFAI??€™s windfalls. And they are many more numerous than less well-off families. Extrapolating from numbers cited by Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, it appears that nearly two-thirds of the College’s student body comes from middle...
...many more middle-income students than lower-income students. As HFAI progresses, there will be less media fanfare for more money, and fewer sexy minority statistics in return for bigger investments. But supporting middle-income students is not a case of diminishing returns. Rather it is a test of HFAI??€™s true motivations—a moral imperative. If the initiative runs out of political steam and endowment cash just as it becomes more difficult and more expensive, then HFAI will appear to be a ploy to burnish Harvard’s image, not the genuine attempt...
...said. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will not pay for the initiative during that period, Fitzsimmons added. FAS faces structural budget deficits in the coming years that may exceed $100 million by 2010, according to a report released in January. Fitzsimmons said that expanding HFAI??€™s scope will not detract from the admissions office’s endeavor to increase the number of students from families with annual incomes below $40,000, the group most directly targeted by the original program. In fact, he said, “we’re in the process...