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Harvard Tuition Program |
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers announced in February 2004
a major new initiative designed to encourage talented students
from families of low and moderate income to attend Harvard
College. While the new initiative has four major components,
including recruitment, admissions, and a summer academic program
designed to prepare talented students from financially
disadvantaged backgrounds for college, the financial aid
component increases aid for students from low and moderate
income families. Beginning with the 2004-05 year, parents in
families with incomes of less than $40,000 will no longer be
expected to contribute to the cost of attending Harvard for
their children. In addition, Harvard will reduce the
contributions expected of families with incomes between $40,000
and $60,000.
The University has earmarked $2 million in new financial aid
funds to cover this expanded aid next year, bringing its total
annual scholarship budget for undergraduates to just under $80
million. The new initiative, which will take effect next fall
for all students - entering and returning - is expected to
benefit more than 1000 families on an annual basis. The new
financial aid initiative is the latest step in a progressive
expansion of financial aid at Harvard in recent years. Harvard
College's nearly $80 million in scholarships for undergraduates
in the coming year represents a 49% increase over the past six
years when inflation rose by only 13.5%. This increase in
scholarship aid has reduced the average student loan debt upon
graduation to $8,800 for the Class of 2003, a figure well below
the national average of close to $20,000.
Visit
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/daily/0402/28-finaid.html
for the full text of this announcement.
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Free Speech Rights of Students
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BETHEL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 403 ET AL. v. FRASER, A MINOR, ET AL.
In
Bethel, the Court upheld the
right of Washington state high school administrators to discipline a student
for delivering a campaign speech at a school assembly that was loaded with
sexual innuendo. The Court expressed the view that administrators ought to
have the discretion to punish student speech that violates school rules and
has the tendency to interfere with legitimate educational and disciplinary
objectives.
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HAZELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT ET AL. v. KUHLMEIER ET AL.
In
Hazelwood, the Court relied
heavily on Bethel to uphold
the right of school administrators to censor materials in a student-edited
school paper that concerned sensitive subjects such as student pregnancy, or
that could be considered an invasion of privacy.
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PAPISH v. BOARD OF CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
ET AL.
Papish
considered the decision of the University of Missouri to expel a journalism
student who distributed a controversial leaflet (including four-letter words
and a cartoon showing the Statue of Liberty being raped) on campus. The
Court held the expulsion violated Papish's First Amendment rights.
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TINKER ET AL. v. DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ET AL.
In
Tinker, perhaps the best known
of the Court's student speech cases, the Court found that the First
Amendment protected the right of high school students to wear black armbands
in a public high school, as a form of protest against the Viet Nam War. The
Court ruled that this symbolic speech--"closely akin to pure speech"--could
only be prohibited by school administrators if they could show that it would
cause a substantial disruption of the school's educational mission.
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