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...president and the provost have also indicated Harvard's obligation to exercise "fiscal prudence," to maintain high academic standards while avoiding significant increases in tuition. These fiscal responsibilities are important, to be sure. But Harvard's primary income is not from tuition, and its primary expenses are not service employee wages. We must reevaluate the priorities of our University community, and at the same time, keep some perspective. Harvard spends plenty of money on wine and cheese at the Faculty Club. Is this fiscally prudent? In this bastion of wealth, why are presently-low service worker wages considered some outrageous...
Female undergraduates are admitted by a joint Harvard-Radcliffe Office of Admissions. Radcliffe immediately transfers tuition and all responsibilities for educating and housing undergraduate women to Harvard...
...Many in the community are not aware of this policy, Grogan says, and think Harvard does not award scholarships to those in the community who cannot afford tuition...
Moreover, raising the term bill fee doesn't simply mean you will pay more to the council for better student group funding and services. The University is contributing to this money through financial aid, since the term bill is covered as part of tuition in financial aid packages. This means that the University will spend $63,000 more through financial aid for this effort, effectively increasing its commitment to student life at the same time that the student body does. A term bill increase is about more than students being willing to show their support; it is about the University...
...runs a discussion section, grades papers and exams, and holds office hours in a basement room where 40 other teaching assistants share 29 desks and one computer. For 30 hours a week of such labor, she earns about $1,400 a month--which doesn't even cover her rent, tuition, books and car payments. "It's not really part of my education," she says of her teaching tasks, which have prevented her from finishing her dissertation. "It's still work...