Word: self-help
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...fact sheet from the Financial Aid Office. The old guidelines also required students to make another contribution that was “expected to be earned during the summer,” according to the HFAI guidebook. Under the old guidelines, outside scholarships could serve to offset the self-help expectation but could not be used to replace summer income. The plan unveiled yesterday will allow students to use outside scholarships “to eliminate their summer savings obligations,” according to a statement from the University. The self-help expectation rises...
Think of it as self-help for the M.B.A. set. Mixing Eastern philosophy with career counseling, Rao's personal-development class gets business students to explore what they find meaningful in life and integrate it into their careers. Despite some initial skepticism about the touchy-feely vibe (where else would a future M.B.A. read Ram Dass?), the class has been one of the most popular offered at Columbia Business School, where Rao has been an adjunct professor since 2000. Up to 200 students apply for 40 spots. Students have been so moved by his message, they started an informal alumni...
...guidelines also required students to make another contribution that was “expected to be earned during the summer,” according to the HFAI guidebook. Under the old guidelines, outside scholarships could serve to offset the self-help expectation but could not be used to replace summer income...
...self-help expectation rises by $100, to $3,750, under the new guidelines, and the summer-savings obligation now stands at $1,500 for freshmen and averages around $2,100 for upperclassmen, Fitzsimmons and Donahue said. They noted that while the two requirements increased slightly, both were roughly in line with inflation over the past two years...
...myself." Forgiveness is wonderful and liberating and redemptive, of course. But it has almost become the standard these days. We used to hear about the power of forgiveness from the pulpit; now we get it as another word for moving on, the constant refrain of daytime talk shows and self-help books. Psychologists believe that forgiveness can heal deep trauma, but the concept has become so commonplace that everybody publicly asks for it, from Bill Clinton (for marital infidelity) to celebrities (for assorted addictions) to third-world countries (for debt). We've become so used to people forgiving that...