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...mainland companies trying to improve their image through good works. While the corporate social responsibility movement in China is still small, it has some big names behind it. PC manufacturer Lenovo began a computer-recycling service last year. White-goods maker Haier has donated nearly $400 million to school tuition for poor Chinese students. All in all, about 25 Chinese firms had issued reports to shareholders and the public detailing their CSR projects by June this year, up from fewer than 10 last year, according to Syntao.com, a website that tracks good corporate practices in China. "Most of the largest...
...editorial followed debate in the Senate last week of a law that would allow the government to regulate University endowments. Among the options discussed were repealing the tax-exempt status of university endowments and mandating minimum yearly payouts to help lower tuition costs...
Citing booming wealth at universities across the country even as college tuition continues to rise, the U.S. Senate is considering ways to regulate university endowments. The move brought a rebuke from Harvard, which insisted that Congress should not dictate how university funds are spent. At a Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday, senators considered measures including the repeal of university endowments’ tax-exempt status and mandating minimum yearly payouts to help lower tuition costs. The discussion at last week’s hearing focused on the spectacular growth of university endowments, which collectively increased by 17.7 percent to dollars...
...financial spectrum than it is at attracting those in between. Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in an interview yesterday that promising middle-income students are increasingly foregoing applications to the Ivy League in lieu of prestigious in-state schools that provide competitive tuition. “There’s a prevailing misconception that there is no financial aid available for families [with incomes at or around] $100,000,” Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in an interview yesterday. Last year, families with incomes between...
...Strangely, one never hears nearly as much bitterness over the obscene growth rate of tuition—money spent largely on ever-increasing appendages to an administrative infrastructure whose value and necessity is left unquestioned. Any student who cannot front that extra sum out of pocket likely has their tuition and board remitted; a summer job or low-interest loan can painlessly cover the difference...