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March 8, 2008
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s board of trustees agreed Friday to waive tuition for students whose family income is less than $75,000 a year, The Boston Globe reports.
In addition, the university will stop considering home equity in its calculation of assets for families with incomes below $100,000.
MIT, which ranks No. 6 in endowment size, joins its competitors Harvard and Yale in bolstering aid to middle-class students in recent months. —Don Troop
Steep cuts and shrinking staffs are inspiring libraries to find innovative, collaborative ways to handle collections and share costs.
Scholars and others debate what little boys are made of, and made into, as they grow up in America. Thomas Bartlett reports.
From imprudent training to spotty equipment, college sports can be legal nightmares. But there are ways to lessen the risks, writes Alyssa S. Keehan.
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