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...effect for the upcoming academic year. The maximum contribution by families earning between $60,000 and $100,000 will be $15,683 for both student contribution and room and board. Under the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, undergraduates whose families earn between $60,000 and $120,000 will contribute between zero and 10 percent of their annual income based on a sliding scale. Students whose families make between $120,000 and $180,000 will pay only 10 percent of their annual income, Harvard announced in December. Stanford’s expansion of financial aid will cost the university an additional...
...site. The conference was packed with thematic events, including a lecture by Professor Charles H. Langmuir, who teaches Science B-35: “How to Build a Habitable Planet,” a trip to New York to meet with the architect of the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero, and a presentation by the Allston Development Group.The themes and accompanying activities vary year to year and continent to continent: at the 2007 Hong Kong University conference, Bruemmer remembers her delegation’s tour of an import-export company. “It was really incredible, because you never...
...This proposed increase in Pell Grant funding is welcome news,” said Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations. “But I think the budget overall for higher education is a mixed bag.” Casey cited the zero-increase in funding for the National Institute of Health (NIH)—which will mean a decrease after adjusting for inflation—as evidence that the budget is “an uneven overall package in terms of supporting higher education and its research purposes...
...petition, which has already collected over 1,000 signatures, asks the University to reach zero-net greenhouse gas emissions by its 400th anniversary and to form and fund an interdisciplinary effort to expand teaching and research about climate change...
...stinging postwar fatalism, but flew under the Academy's radar and beneath its contempt. Of the hundreds of westerns in the '50s, some were superb, like Ford's The Searchers and Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, but even those A-list directors could not interest Oscar in their oaters--zero nominations for those two great films-- or in John Wayne's towering performances in them...