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...Harvard’s heels after the University launched a series of aid increases, Yale Law School and Medical School came up with similar financial aid initiatives this week. A month after Harvard Law School announced that it would eliminate tuition for third-year law students who commit to spending five years in public service, Yale Law School Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 unveiled the school’s own assistance programs for students also planning to enter public service. The four-part initiative will raise the baseline income below which loans are forgiven from...
...profits, (a requirement which, according to Assistant Dean for Public Service Alexa Shabecoff, is greatly exceeded: the average HLS student performs an impressive 400 hours of public service before graduation). And on top of an already-generous loan forgiveness program, HLS just announced an unprecedented initiative to not charge third-year tuition to students who commit to public-service careers. Such measures have encouraged more and more Harvard graduates to use their law degrees to help people who really need legal services, but may not have the cash to pay. The traditional five or six percent of HLS graduates going...
...alone will not be enough to solve this lack of primary care physicians. State and federal governments, in conjunction with medical schools, must create a system of tax breaks and subsidies—perhaps along the lines of the Harvard Law School’s recent decision to waive third-year tuition for students who pledge to work in public service for five years—to attract more medical students to the field of primary care. Subsidies for primary care residencies, altering the Medicare pay scale, and creating tax breaks for those who practice primary care could further draw...
Harvard Law School officials announced yesterday that the school will eliminate tuition for third-year law students who commit to spending five years in either public-interest law or the public sector...
Although the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a hospital system affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is in dire financial straits and looking to eliminate up to 300 jobs next year, third-year medical students who are enrolled in the alliance’s hospital-training program will not be affected, officials said. The CHA acknowledge this week that Massachusetts’ pioneering health care reform law has left it with the burden of treating patients without insurance, but without providing adequate reimbursements to the alliance. The CHA has freezed hiring and cut discretionary spending to curb its losses. Still...