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...Harvard student was among the first to receive a scholarship from the only national organization devoted solely to assisting bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgendered (BGLT) individuals in completing their educations, the organization announced last week...
...centerpiece of the new plan is a Presidential Scholars program that will direct scholarship grants to graduate students interested in pursuing careers in public service. The new scholarships will help students across the University from the Graduate School of Education to the Kennedy School of Government to the Graduate School of Design. Deans at all the affected schools have said the new grants come at an opportune time and will help to make the schools more competitive to applicants...
However, Summers’ plan does not go far enough. This new program will simply level the playing field, since many other schools—including Yale and Brown—offer similar scholarship grants. Although we can laud ourselves for finally catching up with our competitors, Harvard—with its enormous endowment—ought to be in the business of leading the pack where financial aid is concerned...
Each school’s admissions and financial aid office will develop its own system for selecting scholarship recipients, Summers said...
Along with the new scholarship and loan programs, Summers promoted Wednesday the recently-created University Graduate Student Aid Fund, designed to solicit donations for graduate student financial...