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...Stanford??s associate dean and director of financial aid, Karen Cooper, said that research showing that students from low-income backgrounds are reluctant to apply to highly-selective, private colleges sparked the decision...
...Stanford??s changes will go into effect in September and affect both current and entering undergraduate students...
...Stanford??s policy change comes a couple of weeks before high school applicants across the country receive their admission decisions and their financial aid packages...
...instructional program isn’t that good, students need to have a voice.” Harvard wouldn’t be the first school to establish a University senate—many institutions, including Stanford and Columbia, already have such bodies.A former member of Stanford??s business faculty, Rajiv Lal, who is now the Roth professor of retailing at Harvard Business School, said that “when FAS had a meeting and a vote of no confidence, there was no process by which the rest of the University could express itself. And I think that?...
...policy that encourages the University to engage in boycotts...will have grave disadvantages for the institution.” Yet several events in the past year, including Harvard’s selling its shares of PetroChina, Michigan’s termination of its contract with Coca-Cola, and Stanford??s, Yale’s, and Amherst’s divestment from all companies doing business in Sudan, indicate that this debate is anything but a closed case. And divestment remains in the news—Harvard still holds shares in Sinopec, another company with links to the Khartum...