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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
After nine years in office, Lawrence S. Bacow says he is not interested in another presidency: "It's one and done for me."
The group calls on colleges to give contingent faculty members better pay and support, but not all of its members have signed the statement.
Nearly all students felt the impact of the economic slump, but women, members of minority groups, and financially needy students were most affected.
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