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...receiving federal funds would be affected. At Oberlin College, for example, half of the 2,700 students have guaranteed loans. According to James White, director of financial aid at Oberlin, half of those would be ineligible for borrowing under the new guidelines. As a result of the reductions, says Ernest Smith, director of financial assistance at the University of Miami, "students might start adhering to the 'shop-down' theory, where they make decisions not on what the college offers but on what they could afford...
...wound states and localities where they can least afford it, in basic outlays for such services as police, education and sanitation. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, whose state is in a better position than most to weather such cuts, decries the proposal as "a cruel joke." Says New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial, the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors: "In the name of deficit reduction, the budget proposes to cut or eliminate nearly every federal investment of benefit to the cities...
...years of research by Carnegie Trustee Nell Eurich on what has been a disconnected and poorly observed educational behemoth. U.S. companies, Eurich reports, are training and educating nearly 8 million people, close to the total enrollment in America's four-year colleges and universities. According to Carnegie President Ernest Boyer, the corporate classroom has quietly become "a kind of third leg of the education system in the U.S." And it is one of the strongest forces for continuing adult education. Courses range from remedial English to nuclear engineering. Some subjects, such as language and accounting, overlap those in the nation...
...Boston-based Northeast Investors, headed by $100,000-plus Harvard Campaign donor Ernest E. Monrad '51, where all five directors hold Harvard degrees...
...Ernest ("Jerry") Nunnally, who has held a similar post at Dartmouth since 1978, will oversee the solicitation of funds from companies and philanthropic foundations for the College and the Faculty. He will also advise the University's nine graduate schools...