January 18, 2008

Who Is Lynne Munson?

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

And why is she saying such harsh things about wealthy colleges?

Lynne Munson dismisses Harvard University's new plan to spend $22-million more annually on student aid as "miserly."

She says Yale University could have shown more leadership by pledging to spend at least 5 percent of its endowment each year, rather than the 4.5-percent minimum it announced last week.

And she contends that dozens of other wealthy colleges — even those that don't have Harvard's

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