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...could look to Canada, where immigrants make up 18% of the general population. Yet polls show that the majority of Canadians have a positive view of immigration. Some of this is thanks to the dedicated integration programs that local governments and ngos run. Support groups, counseling sessions, free language tuition, even buddy systems that bring immigrants together with born-and-bred Canadians all help smooth the transition for those coming to Canada and those who are there already. But the country is also picky about who it welcomes in the first place. Immigrants are selected using a system that awards...
...pastor in 2005, spent his take on expensive vacations to Las Vegas and the Bahamas; a $220,000 renovation of his parish residence; and payments to his own "paramour," the bookkeeper of his former parish, whom he gave $47,000 for credit-card bills and her child's tuition. Both priests were arrested by Delray Beach police last September--after Guinan returned from a South Pacific cruise--and were charged with grand theft. (They pleaded not guilty...
...American Revolution marked the beginning of a turbulent time on campus. Students relocated to Concord as Yard buildings were used to house soldiers, smallpox broke out in Cambridge, and many could not afford to pay tuition. Furthermore, students openly opposed Langdon’s efforts to instill more theology into their lives. Tired of being treated like children, the students declared him unfit for presidency in August of 1780. Langdon, unable to hold imperial rule over the school, took the hint and stepped down. Langdon’s fall from grace marked a change in the power dynamics between Harvard...
...assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education who studies the economics of higher education. Helping to offset costs, many American schools receive a portion of their funding from government sources as well, in the form of direct appropriations, tax benefits, and federal student aid, according to Long. Tuition and sales of products and services generally help to make up the other portion. As a result, “American institutions have much more diversified revenue streams,” Long said. While Harvard and Yale have the largest endowments of any private institutions in the United States or world...
...great, but we’ll need to see the final numbers,” Mora said. Currently 700 undergraduates receive Pell Grants at Harvard, and parents who earn incomes less than $60,000 are not expected to pay their children’s Harvard tuition. Even though the proposal’s $7.3 billion increase affects aid programs other than Pell Grants, experts and financial aid providers said they were still concerned that the nation’s rising tuition will compound the effects of cutting financial aid programs. “We are strongly supportive of the Pell...