January 2008

Financial Aid in the News

The Times‘ roundup of the financial aid story can be found here. Inside Higher Ed here. The Daily D here. Bloomberg here.



Dartmouth Updates Financial Aid Package

In an attempt to keep up with the other Ivy League schools, Dartmouth announced significant changes to its financial aid package. Details from the College’s…


William and Mary’s Boards of Visitors

The College of William and Mary might have its governing board reorganized along the lines of Dartmouth’s. The board has seventeen members, twelve of whom…



Dartmouth and Sexism

Nathan Empsall ’09 writes the Wayward Episcopalian blog. For quite some time it mostly focused on Katrina relief efforts, a subject close to the author’s…


Should the State Fix This?

William Schpero continued his peerless coverage of Trustee issues in Friday’s Daily D. There is also considerable discussion about this on the post directly below….




SAD, so sad.

Buried towards the end of an article in today’s Daily D about reviewing the SEMP guidelines is a terrifying harbinger of things to come: The…