Word: lrap
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...response, Nye moved to bolster the school’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), which offers financial aid to alums in low-salary public service jobs. He made changes that increased LRAP’s budget five-fold—with stunning results. Last year, just 20 percent of Kennedy School graduates took private-sector positions...
...March, Nye said he would have to scale back graduates’ LRAP eligibility in order to preserve the Kennedy School’s financial health. But after students staged an all-night demonstration to protest the changes, Nye announced that he would exempt past and current students from the more stricter eligibility requirements...
Meanwhile, the outgoing dean has raised additional donations earmarked for LRAP from alums, and students have initiated a fundraising drive of their own to sustain the program. Ellwood pledged to continue Nye’s effort...
...LRAP remains something I’m very concerned about, and I will work hard over with alumni and donors to expand the program as much as we can,” Ellwood said...
...LRAP is a program that is pretty near to the dean’s heart and is very much a part of his vision for what the Kennedy School should do,” said Gotbaum, who is a vice chair of DALC...