April 16, 1999
The Real Costs of Tuition Waivers
To the Editor:
The article about cuts in tuition benefits at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is misleading on one tax point: University-provided tuition waivers are ordinarily taxable, not tax-free, for graduate-level education ("Stanford and M.I.T. Reduce Tuition Benefits for Children of Employees," February 26).
But, more serious than the technical glitch, the story
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