MIT has become the latest top-tier American university to dramatically revise its financial aid plan for middle-income families.
Roughly 30 percent of the university’s 4,000 undergraduates will be affected by the changes, and the school’s financial aid budget will jump by $7 million to $74 million next year. About 65 percent of MIT undergraduates receive need-based financial aid from the university.
The move comes after rival institutions including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell and Penn all announced major changes to their financial aid plans. Columbia is expected to follow suit later this month. Princeton administrators have said repeatedly that they have no intention of revising the University’s financial aid policy and that the University's program is among the strongest in the country.
Tony Blair to teach at Yale
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will join the Yale faculty as a visiting fellow during the 2008-09 academic year, the university announced Friday.
Blair served for 10 years as prime minister before stepping down as Labour Party leader last June. Later this year he will launch a foundation to help foster interfaith dialogue around the world, and Blair’s course at Yale will focus on issues relating to faith and globalization. Blair heads to New Haven at a time when his eldest son, Euan, is completing a two-year master’s program in international relations at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Blair was appointed to the Howland Distinguished Fellowship, which was created in 1915 to recognize individuals of achievement in the fields of literature or fine arts or the science of government. Past recipients include former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Blair is not the first former foreign head of state to teach in New Haven. Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo is currently the head of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
—Matt Westmoreland
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