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...College administrators greet such concerns with ambivalence, as long as tuition continues rising skyward and applications continue arriving in great numbers...
Companies are putting real resources into these efforts. North Shore--LIJ Health System, for example, plowed about $10 million into worker training and tuition reimbursement last year. People at all levels are encouraged to expand their skills, which is how employees who start out as secretaries or housekeepers eventually wind up as technicians on surgical teams. That helps lead to a one-year retention rate of 96%, besting the industry-average 88%, and, ultimately, to better care for patients, says chief human-resources officer Joseph Cabral, who likes to display a chart that shows patient-satisfaction scores rising with employee...
...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...
...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 into public...
...from the intrusion of the outside world. For that outside world (which includes Macleod), it ensures only strictly-enforced exclusion. We’re very lucky to be able to live in such a walled-off dream world. But even among all these physical comforts (which I suppose my tuition pays for), that luck and its consequences can seem very difficult to justify. We grow accustomed to seeing the same unfortunate people in the Square: the same sleeping bags outside the Coop at night, the same cajoling man selling Spare Change News outside Au Bon Pain, the same lady...