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...said Kalis, who added that the group had not received a reply to its letter from the University as of last night. The president of the Law School Council, Zachary W. Prager, said that the next Harvard leader will have to confront issues that specifically affect graduate students??such as the coordination of cross-registration among graduate schools. “I think having representation at the search committee level is essential to ensuring that those concerns really rise to the level of importance that they deserve,” he said. The University has not yet announced...
...long run, we hope that HFAI will fulfill a greater mission than simply increasing the number of low-income students that come to Cambridge. Its ultimate goal is to increase high school aged students?? awareness about the practicality of a college education, even if that does not mean attending Harvard. We seek to raise awareness of available financial aid and encourage all students to attend college and think about colleges they may not have thought of applying to. Indeed, the HFAI office coordinators are trained to answer questions about admissions, college life, and financial aid so they...
Given that a free Harvard is a financial possibility, the question we should be asking is not whether we can pursue this policy but whether we should. To answer the latter, we should look to socioeconomic impact and the potential for Harvard to change students?? lives...
...editors: Re: “Faculty Approves Secondary Fields,” news, Apr. 5. I was genuinely surprised to see the faculty approve secondary fields for Harvard undergraduates. Secondary fields strike at the underlying premise of Harvard students?? education: that they should be students of the world and not of select disciplines. A discipline is a perspective. It is meant to be a tool or lens, with which we decipher and study the world around us—it is not to be studied exclusively in itself. No wonder, Harvard’s long-time insistence...
Harvard’s first priority still must be to target and attract underrepresented and lower-income students??people for whom HFAI is currently tailor-made. Fitzsimmons and the successors of University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean Kirby cannot stop there, however. If Summers truly believes that “the larger the lake you fish in, the bigger fish you will catch,” then he should ensure that Harvard’s financial aid hook is baited with middle-income lures as well. The problem, as I alluded to before, is that these lures...