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...
Claussen, an organizer of the fundraising campaign, noted that a small number of students have resisted the pro-LRAP movement’s collaboration with administrators...
Students raised a modest $700 at a talent show last month, Claussen said, and 150 students donated to LRAP on Monday. He said the campaign aims to reach 60 percent participation by the end of the week...
...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...