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...Kirby breathlessly informed the Faculty in his annual letter that the percentage of female Junior Faculty members in humanities departments had dropped. But discrimination, or even an environment subtly hostile to female scholarship, seemed an unlikely explanation for that trend, given substantial representation of women in the departments’ hiring decisions...
...book. “So many of those books are written by admissions officers. These are students the reader can relate to,” Kung says. One separation is that The College Matters Guide is completely non-profit, donating 100 percent of its earnings to a scholarship fund to assist those who they help get into college actually be able to attend...
Over the past five or six years Harvard’s scholarship budget has increased from roughly $50 million to around $80 million according to Director of Financial Aid Sally C. Donahue. The growing endowment, which contributes to roughly 75 percent of the total financial aid budget, has enabled this increase...
...time Foxx won a piano scholarship to United States International University in San Diego, he had figured out how to convert his confidence and pain into fearlessness and ambition. At a Los Angeles comedy club in 1989, his then girlfriend urged him to grab the open mic and perform (though it's hard to imagine he needed much persuading). "I went on as Cosby, Cosby the gangster," Foxx recalls, slipping instantly into long, uncoiled Bill Cosby sentences punctuated with profanity. "I did Tyson. I did Reagan. When I got on that stage I felt like all the elements were finally...
...initiative eliminates tuition for students whose families earn less than $40,000 a year and cuts costs for families that make $40,000 to $60,000. Currently, the initiative, which only increases the College’s annual scholarship budget by $2 million, benefits about 1,000 undergraduates, according to University statistics...