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...that as veterans these deferred students would have “independent financial status,” making them eligible—should Harvard choose to acknowledge it—for a much larger need-based grant and loan package. Second, these students would receive the traditional G.I. Bill scholarship funds—not a huge amount of money, but enough to make a difference. This would effectively lower the cost of the education, making a Harvard education attainable to additional lower- and middle-income students...
Colleagues at Harvard said the ongoing legal action has no bearing on Shleifer’s scholarship and said that the University must do what it can to retain...
...Kirby announced that faculty will be able to take a semester off at full pay for every six semesters they spend teaching in Cambridge—allowing them paid leave twice as often as under the old policy. Such sabbaticals are meant to give faculty a chance to do scholarship unburdened by their normal teaching and administrative responsibilities. The move was widely hailed by both professors and administrators as bringing Harvard into line with other universities whose policies on taking sabbaticals are much more generous...
COOPER: I would say Oseola McCarty [the Mississippi laundress who donated a $150,000 scholarship to the University of Southern Mississippi in 1995], Oprah Winfrey, my mother. And Barbara Bush--she's very comfortable with...
...Late Bloomer On a personal level, Cheney was not always a bull-by-the-horns guy. After Cheney graduated from high school, Tom Stroock, a local oilman who was impressed by the young man, arranged his entrance and full scholarship to Yale. After four semesters, Cheney's grades were so bad, the university asked him to leave. David Nicholas, who has known Cheney since junior high school and who went to Harvard, thinks part of the problem was that the Casper schools had not prepared the boys for Ivy League academics. "We were competing with kids who went to Andover...