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...Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) previously waived tuition only for students of family incomes less than $40,000 a year. The news of this dramatic 50 percent increase in HFAI aid is not too shabby, to say the least...
...year—by no means an income that is poor—can attend Harvard easily if qualified for admission. If Harvard College truly wants to improve the situations of low-income students, it won’t do so through ineffective publicity stunts like free tuition for its Burberry-clad undergraduates...
Three weeks ago an op-ed piece in The Los Angeles Times urged Harvard to adopt a shocking new proposal: make the College absolutely free. That’s right—no tuition, no room rent, and no board for all students. Despite the suggestion’s seemingly radical nature, we quantitatively can and qualitatively should pursue this policy...
...Last week, officials from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid announced that an expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, effective this fall, will eliminate the family contribution for students with family incomes under $60,000 per year. But the good news comes with a sobering addition: tuition will rise this fall to a total of $43,655 per student. The expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) is a great stride in Harvard’s financial aid efforts. Previously, HFAI waived family contributions only for students with family incomes under $40,000 per year...
Harvard officials said yesterday that the Higher Education Act renewed by the House of Representatives on Thursday contained provisions that give the federal government excessive influence over colleges. But supporters of the act said that it will rein in tuition hikes and make college more affordable. The legislation would increase the maximum individual Pell Grant by $200 to $6,000. It also looks to expand federal oversight of colleges by monitoring tuition hikes. Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, said in a statement...