Word: hfai
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Invited by Harvard Friends of Amnesty International (HFAI), and spearheaded by the efforts of Tina H. Rivers ’05 and the Office For the Arts at Harvard (OFA), Miller will perform this self-described “digital exorcism” in its Boston premiere for HFAI’s first annual “Jamnesty,” an event to raise awareness for the organization...
Harvard instituted the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) last year, which pledges no parental contribution for families with incomes below $40,000. The recent increase in fee waiver requests may indicate that the initiative has not deterred people from lower-income families from applying to the College...
...received 22,717 applications for entrance next fall—the largest number of applications in the school’s history and a 15 percent increase in the number of applicants compared to last year. This rise in applications seems to indicate that the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), introduced last year by President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, is substantially increasing the number of low-income applicants, thus improving socioeconomic diversity in the College...
...with the introduction of the HFAI, that imbalance has begun to change. The HFAI significantly reduces the amount lower-income students must pay in tuition. Families earning $40,000 a year or less do not have to contribute any money, and those earning between $40,000 and $60,000 have to pay substantially less as compared to previous years. The result of this new program appears to be fairly clear, as the number of students asking for an application fee waiver rose 45 percent. While this percentage does not show exactly how many applicants will qualify under the HFAI, those...
Summers and Fitzsimmons should be congratulated for the apparent success of the HFAI so far, but they and the rest of the administration must continue to promote this progressive initiative, making as many high school students aware of it as possible. Furthermore, Harvard, because of its prestige, should serve as a leader to other colleges and universities—perhaps the New Haven school whose admission numbers dropped would benefit from pursuing a similar program—encouraging them to expand the aid and support they give low-income students. The status of Harvard as an institution gives...