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...talented students into the black hole of finance, it should be noted that nine percent of the class of 2008 applied to work for TFA, and many others are entering into careers of service. Harvard Law School launched its Public Service Initiative, granting free third-year tuition to students who dedicate the next five years to public service. And the recent emergence of many social entrepreneurship organizations are offering alternatives to more traditional modes of service...
...similar vein, education funding for illegal immigrants is being threatened in the United States. Legislation like Proposition 300, passed in Arizona in November 2006, prohibits the state from subsidizing in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. The measure, however, mainly impacts the children of illegal immigrants, many of whom have been raised in the U.S. This group deserves access to educational opportunities and should not be denied this opportunity by what is—at its core—xenophobia...
...said that while the organization’s mission of offering employment opportunities to undergraduates has remained the same, the focus is now on the “bigger aspect” of pre-professional experience rather than providing students with a means to afford tuition...
...signed in June 1944, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (the policy's official name) offered a college scholarship to all those who had served in uniform, whether or not they had fought on the front lines. In the decades since, benefits have fallen far behind the cost of university tuitions, prompting Senators Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel to draft a new GI Bill that would offer soldiers full tuition at any state school...
...vote on this week to update the 1944 G.I. Bill to provide expanded education assistance and opportunities to the armed forces. The bill, co-sponsored by two other Vietnam veterans in the Senate, Republican Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Democrat Jim Webb of Virginia, would effectively provide full tuition and housing costs at a four-year public university for veterans who have served at least three years of active duty. Given his family's and his own long and distinguished service career, the bill would seem like a natural fit for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But McCain, concerned about...