PROTO: Reform financial aid |
Yale Daily News, 3/8/2016 - The list of steps that the Yale administration could take to better support working people on campus and in New Haven is long...But in the long lineup of things that Yale can and should do, one thing is particularly straightforward. Yale should eliminate the student contribution for undergraduate students on financial aid. Read more
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New website bolsters financial aid protests |
Yale Daily News, 3/8/2016 - A website went live Monday morning that calls for the total elimination of the student effort portion of financial aid — the latest push in a yearslong battle between students and the administration to level the playing field for low-income students at Yale. Read more
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Admins to consider sliding scale for SSIC |
Yale Daily News, 2/3/2016 - The idea of a “sliding scale” to determine the expected summer contribution for students on financial aid is on the table, but questions remain about its feasibility. Read more
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PATHAK: Yale's job problem |
Yale Daily News, 2/1/2016 - In the financial aid town hall last semester, the administration implemented changes to the summer portion of the student income contribution, reducing the expectation by $1,350 for high-need students and $450 for everyone else. However, many students voiced concern that the term-time contribution — which stands at $3,350 for upperclassmen — remains a large hurdle that hinders students’ ability to focus on academics and participate in extracurricular activities. Read more
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Financial aid conversations continue in spring |
Yale Daily News, 2/1/2016 - Dialogue between students and administrators over financial aid policy has continued into the spring following the University’s December announcement of reforms to the student summer income contribution. Read more
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Financial aid office updates award letter |
Yale Daily News, 12/11/2015 - In just under a week, the first admits to the class of 2020 will receive a revamped financial aid award letter, the product of an administrative effort to communicate more clearly with students about the cost of a Yale education. Read more
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Evolving explanations for "student effort" |
Yale Daily News, 12/9/2015 - At a financial aid town hall in November 2014, when students asked Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi whether Yale would ask financial aid recipients to fulfill a “student effort” requirement if the University could afford not to, Storlazzi spoke of the “inherent value of partnership [with the University] and contributing towards their education” — something students achieve when working campus jobs. But roughly one year later, at another town hall meeting Monday night, Storlazzi offered a different explanation. Read more
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Student Effort to decrease |
Yale Daily News, 11/18/2015 - After years of mounting student pressure to reform Yale’s financial aid policy, University President Peter Salovey announced Tuesday that the student effort expectation will be reduced for current students for the next academic year. Read more
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Making the effort |
Yale Daily News, 11/13/2015 - In September of her sophomore year, Yamile Lozano ’17 received a letter threatening her with forced withdrawal from Yale College. Read more
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BLACKMON: Summertime inequality |
Yale Daily News, 9/29/2015 - “Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” But at Yale, as a direct result of our financial aid policies, the great equalization stops at summer’s door. Read more
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BLACKMON: Yale's lost decadeYale Students Protest Work Requirement for Financial Aid |
Yale Daily News, 3/24/2015 - The 2015–16 school year will be the worst academic year for low-income students in nearly a decade. Read more
Huffington Post, 3/5/2015 - A requirement that Yale undergraduates on financial aid pay up to $6,400 annually toward their education is coming under protest from students who argue it creates a divide along class lines and keeps them from participating more in campus life. Read more
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In protest, SUN decries student income contribution |
Yale Daily News, 3/2/2015 - Nearly 100 students gathered in front of Woodbridge Hall on Friday to protest students’ contributions to their own financial aid packages. The protest, organized by Students Unite Now, called on the University to eliminate a policy that requires undergraduates on financial aid to contribute to their education through savings or income from a summer job. Read more
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Cents and Sensibility |
Yale Daily News, 2/15/2015 - At 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005, 15 students arrived at Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions to stage a sit-in. They were protesting Yale’s financial aid policies, which they saw as tightfisted. As a result, the office at 38 Hillhouse Ave. was closed for much of the day. Yale police officers were posted outside. Read more
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BLACKMON: Yale's cruel no-loan lie |
Yale Daily News, 1/27/2015 - As I wrapped up my presentation to 20 eager high school juniors — each one filled to the brim with unadulterated enthusiasm for the “affordable” university I had just pitched them — I clenched my fist and took a deep breath as I asked in a steady voice, “So, who has questions?” Read more
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