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...Another student entrepreneurship organization on campus is the more established Harvard Student Agencies, which has been in existence for 51 years and was originally founded to provide students with tuition aid through business experience. Unlike HCEF, HSA provides concrete opportunities to practice entrepreneurship by running the existing agencies with the freedom to maintain traditional practices or move the agencies in a new direction. “A lot of the time people think entrepreneurship is just starting new businesses, and it’s not,” says Jim McKellar, the CEO and general manager...
More families are switching schools to save money on their children's tuition, according to a New York City--based firm that processes payments for nearly 2,000 private schools nationwide. Smart Tuition found that by the middle of the current school year, 7% of students had transferred--twice the number of students who left private schools...
Still, serving lattes for minimum wage plus tips is a painful prospect to the average college student, who graduates with $21,000 in the red. Tuition costs could also explain why graduate schools, traditionally a refuge in tough economic times, have seen uneven application numbers this year. Lance Choy, director of the career development center at Stanford, notes that grad schools were a popular backup a few years ago during the dotcom bust, but applications are flat this year. "Who needs more debt when the job market is looking rather grim?" he says. (Read "Finding a Dream Job: A Little...
...Harvard has asked the community to endure a series of cuts in response to the sudden scarcity of financial resources. The university expects its students, staff, and neighbors to endure a hiring freeze, a push for early retirement, a tuition increase, and cuts to the custodial staff in addition to the slowdown in Allston. This has not only incited the Allston community but also prompted two Harvard professors to threaten to leave, angered the unions involved in construction and custodial work, and left all involved in a state of clouded confusion about the reality of Harvard’s financial...
...person. Moreover, it is unlikely that it costs nothing to process a schedule on the third Monday of a term but $10 to do so on the third Tuesday. Even supposing the administrative burden were that expensive, the College should draw this fee from the $32,000 in tuition it has already extracted from each student, presumably for such academic purposes...