Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sigel says the mall has donated $250,000 towards a scholarship fund for local East Cambridge students. Vendetti adds that the mall typically gives out $13,000 to $18,000 each year to area residents to help defray the cost of college tuition...
...constant exchanges of funds that mark a Harvard career are symptomatic of our nation's approach to higher education. The American university is always giving and taking at the same time. While the university gives you an education, it takes your tuition dollars. While that education gives you success in later life, Harvard takes the donations and connections that come with that accomplishment...
Finally, there were students who didn't have time for extracurricular activities or sports or a social life and who bought few new clothes, because even if they had tuition scholarships they had to earn their keep, often by waiting on tables in student dining halls...
...universities such as Harvard reconcile the dilemma between the seeming impracticality of a liberal arts education and the demand for specialized skills in an work force ever more technologically complex? Can they convince the rest of the country (and humanities majors' parents, who wonder just what that $100,000 tuition is going toward) that a humanistic education is valuable even though it does not create ready-made employees? Or must liberal arts schools resign themselves to strictures of practicality and subscribe to the principle of "operational utility," defined by Michael R. Harris as a mandate implying "that the raison...
...part of the agreement, Harvard acquired responsibility for managing Radcliffe's day-to-day operations, like facility maintenance and dining halls, in return for all undergraduate tuition payments...