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...later, Wesleyan College announced that it will curb its issuance of loans, moving all students of families with incomes below $40,000 to grant-only packages and reducing the size of loans in aid packages to families with incomes higher than that number. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...then invited to perform at Harvard. Clark’s ensemble has existed for a decade in various incarnations, and its current lineup has been a long time coming.“I started playing koto [a Japanese 13-stringed zither] when I was a student at Wesleyan,” says Clark. “I had been an exchange student in Japan and began playing when they started the koto program at the college.”Her idea for the ensemble was fully realized at the 1997 opening of the Harvard University Asia Center, where she played...
...twelve college presidents signed a letter asking their colleagues not to participate in the peer assessment survey and not to use the rankings for promotional efforts. The letter, which has since gathered over 50 additional signatories including the presidents of Wesleyan University, Kenyon College, and Trinity College in Connecticut, called the rankings "misleading" and criticized them for implying a false precision, obscuring important differences, ignoring what students are actually learning, and encouraging wasteful spending in pursuit of improved rankings. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The Aug. 25 online article "Harvard Places Second in College Rankings" incorrectly stated that the president of Wesleyan University had signed a letter asking colleagues to refrain from participating in the US News and World Report higher education survey. In fact, the presidents of Wesleyan College and Ohio Wesleyan University signed the letter, but the president of Wesleyan University...
...February of 1982, Wesleyan became the first major university to change its aid policy because of the Reagan cuts; the school’s trustees voted to adopt a policy of rejecting some applicants who could not pay full tuition...