Harvard offers free tuition to low-income students
From the Globe Education Desk
Harvard is offering free tuition for students whose family income is below $40,000, according to a spokesperson for the Ivy League university. The outreach project is an effort to enroll more diverse students other than those from upper-income families. “Harvard University has announced that from low income families will pay no tuition” said a statement from the president’s office.In making the announcement , Harvard President Lawerence H. Summers said,”When only 10 percent of the students in elite higher education come from families in the lower half of the income distribution, weare not doing enough . We are not doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the lower half of the income distribution. For more information visit Harvard’s financial aid website at:http://adm-is-fas.harvard.edu/FAO/index.htm or call the school’s financial aid office at (617)495-1581
