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Recent changes to government regulations will decrease federal financial aid to college students by hundreds of millions of dollars next year—but the shift will have little effect on Harvard students, according to Director of the Office for Financial Aid Sally C. Donahue...
...shift is for the early birds, the ones brave enough to leave their desks with everyone watching. They scamper into the elevators and hold the “close door” button to conceal the liberated smile on their faces...
Dean has no idea how large this constituency is, but he knows it isn't large enough to win the nomination. "It's time to shift gears," he told me, "to become a more presidential candidate with an inclusive vision, not just a bomb thrower." The official announcement of his candidacy this week was to signal that change. And the broader vision? "We've lost our sense of community," he told me. Not exactly a new theme. The Governor road-tested "community" at the Larkspur rally, and it wasn't nearly as much fun as the bomb throwing...
Soprani had originally worked a day shift when coming to Harvard two years ago, she said at the May rally. She said ACME/Pioneer management forced her to take a night shift last September...
This comment not only highlighted the great dissatisfaction among students with the advising system—a problem that Gross and others have said will receive very close attention in the curricular review—but also signaled a potential shift in curricular emphasis toward bodies of knowledge that students would have to be able to command. An attention to teaching “ways of thinking,” rather than discrete knowledge, has served as the bedrock of the Core since its adoption...