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Students may have received the wrong cards if they lived in a House last year and did not notify the University that they were moving off campus until late this summer, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of Fiscal Services, said yesterday...
...Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the University's office of fiscal services, says the Opportunity Act would benefit Harvard students more than the tax credit because students at high-cost schools like Harvard are more apt to borrow money to finance their tuition payments and therefore need the expanded loan program. Also, a $500 tax credit hardly makes a dent in a Harvard term-bill whereas the different grant and loan programs can provide more meaningful amounts of aid for those students eligible...
Harvard has lobbied hard in favor of the middle income assistance program, says Thomas R. Wolanin of the House Select Committee on Post-Secondary Education. R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of Harvard's office of Fiscal Services, has made frequent trips to the Capitol. "Gibson has been helping our staff devise a bill that technically does the right thing; he's really one of the national experts on student loans," Wolanin says...
...Harvard administrators who are responsible for dealing with the U.S. Office of Education also know that the program is not always the most equitable way for the federal government to give jobs to the neediest students. The process through which schools apply for federal funds encourages "grantsmanship," says R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the University's office of fiscal services. Clever administrators can manipulate their applications to obtain large increases in their schools' grants--increases not always justified by the financial need of the students, Gibson says...
...distressed that my classmate R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, should so casually dismiss the proposal of Boston University's President John R. Silber for a tuition advance fund. Harvard's endowment, twice its nearest competitor, may yield immunity from the problems of financing higher education but the rest of the nation is not so blessed. Mr. Gibson's contempt for this plan, however, was not shared by his Harvard colleagues in 1968. As one of Dean Ebert's associate deans at Harvard Medical School in that era, I helped the dean promote the national...