Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 appointed a slate of 16 faculty members to serve on the University’s inaugural faculty advisory council during the group’s first two years. Endowment Harvard’s Federal Funding Is Under Fire. Here’s What’s at Risk. ...
The decision came as Trump claimed that the university took coronavirus funding "meant for workers," when the funds designated to Harvard were from a separate source of federal funding within the CARES Act coronavirus package, according to a CNN report....
At Duke, where the share of Black students increased slightly, the institution doubled its share of students who qualify for Pell grants — a federal program for low-income college students — over just a two-year period. The economic diversity, Duke’s admissions dean said, “was clearly he...
The suit alleges that Harvard's legacy preference has nothing to do with merit and takes away slots from qualified students of color. It asks the U.S. Education Department to declare the practice illegal and force Harvard to abandon it as long as the university receives federal funding. Harva...
Financial aid refers to funding that students can use to pay for college and is generally awarded based on need or merit. Need-based aid is determined by your or your family’s demonstrated ability to pay for college, as calculated by the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as ...
from the department to Harvard's lawyers, dated Nov. 17 and reviewed by the Journal, the school was being investigated under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin for organizations that receive federal funding. ...
The initiative will focus on bringing work on such cells out of the lab and into the clinic, and it will operate without federal funding to avoid government restrictions. Harvard's new institute and cell lines are the latest signs that restrictions on federal funding are doing little to dampen...
The board failed to create a discrimination-free environment on campus exposing the university to tremendous reputational damage, to large legal and financial liabilities, congressional investigations and scrutiny, and to the potential loss of federal funding, all while damaging th...
to the University in light of a continuing decline in research funding from the federal government. Cost management has been more challenging, both at Harvard and across higher education more broadly, due to the people- and space-intensive nature of teach- ...
More than 300 researchers and educators rallied outside the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in downtown Boston on Wednesday to protest President Donald Trump’s attempted cuts to federal funding for research. Biopharma Giant GSK to Expand Research and Development Footprint in Cambridge ...