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...understanding with people previously ignored, and that is precisely the purpose of education. Study abroad can be improved by more integration with host schools, home-stays, and increased funding. Such expansion and improvement, not the degradation of international education, is precisely what American education and competitiveness demand. H. CLAY PELL ’05 Providence, R.I. April...
...that the Higher Education Act renewed by the House of Representatives on Thursday contained provisions that give the federal government excessive influence over colleges. But supporters of the act said that it will rein in tuition hikes and make college more affordable. The legislation would increase the maximum individual Pell Grant by $200 to $6,000. It also looks to expand federal oversight of colleges by monitoring tuition hikes. Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, said in a statement that...
...feature lets visitors create tables that can compare up to 128 types of criterion between institutions. Harvard’s profile indicates that for the 2003-04 application season, 55 percent of undergraduates did not apply for financial aid. The website also reports that six percent of students received Pell grants, which the website states typically go to students with family incomes lower than $40,000. Shireman said that he admired Harvard’s efforts to recruit low-income students through the Financial Aid Initiative. “Everyone looks to Harvard for leadership, and Harvard is sending...
...Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Susan M. Collins (D-Maine) proposed an amendment that would provide an additional $6.3 billion to the discretionary spending for education. The increase in funding would have gone towards raising Pell Grants from $4,050 to $4,500 and restoring programs including the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) and Perkins Loans, both of which were eliminated by President George W. Bush’s recent 2007 fiscal year budget cuts. GEAR UP targets low-income students...
...With the Pell plan, MIT opted not to set an annual income level beneath which the school waives a family’s contribution...