Word: low
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...With these goals in mind, and recognizing the challenges, we issue the following call to action to President Faust, who despite these tough economic times admirably remains steadfastly committed to financial aid outreach to students from low-income families...
...Task force and office: Harvard should create a task force and a professionally staffed office for supporting underrepresented students at Harvard. This will include first-generation college goers who are Harvard professors, low-income students, experts on student retention, and other interested and experienced alumni and community members...
...Expand academic, peer, and counseling support: Harvard’s Bureau of Study Counsel would expand its wide array of counseling, workshops, discussions groups, and courses to address the needs of first-generation and low-income college goers. It would train its tutors, group leaders, and peer counselors about the unique academic, socio-economic, and institutional challenges the underrepresented students may experience...
...Giving back: Students will work to help prepare other first-generation and low-income students to reach for the academic stars. Similar students at Princeton developed their own group to prepare students for college. What better role models could future Harvard students have than those who came before them...
...that alumni and alumnae join this call to action, by helping fund summer programs and donating their time for mentoring programs all around the country. We ask that student leaders and faculty advisors answer this call by joining forces to aid this increasing pool of first-generation and low-income matriculating students, to ease them through the many transitions en route to a Harvard degree...