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...such a pain was because I didn’t expect it.”“Some warning upon return that we would have to deal with x, y, z would be helpful,” Delaney adds.The OIP has stepped up its efforts to aid returning students by providing some forewarning. Most of the efforts are related to new online features that will offer a checklist and reminders to students. Such measures would provide “a proactive way to tell seniors the ten things they might have missed if they haven’t been...
...hope is that my background in international legal studies, together with my familiarity with Catholic social thought, will aid me in continuing the fruitful dialogue that presently exists between the United States and the Holy See on a range of international issues,” she wrote...
...university officials who granted firms “preferred lender” status, thereby directing captive audiences—and millions of dollars—to a single company. The bribery involved in this subjective designation led to the firing of an Education Department official and three senior financial aid officers at different universities last April. The four had owned—and made enormous profits from—shares of Education Lending Group, a preferred student lender for their respective employers. The new Education Department regulations will ameliorate this anticompetitive state of affairs, but only to an extent. Among...
...Usmani has an advantage that some Harvard students, in an era of extensive financial aid, don’t have. “I come from a very, very privileged background. Sometimes I feel very, very guilty telling people they can’t work in the financial sector, because I myself don’t have these kinds of issues,” he says, of peers with loans to repay and families to help support. “Hypothetically, I could do something without having to worry about how to support myself. I know you can only play...
...classmates did not; the gap between the average salaries for corporate and non-corporate jobs is widening at an astronomical rate. “In 1972, starting salaries at Manhattan firms were up to $16,000 while the federal government offered its newly minted lawyers $13,300 and Legal Aid of New York paid $12,500,” David Brook writes in his book “The Trap.” “Since then, the salary gap has widened, accelerating most rapidly in the 1980s and 90s. Today, it is not uncommon for top law firms...