Harvard Law School Drops Public-Service Student-Aid Program

Harvard Law School is ending a program that waived third-year tuition for students who agreed to work in public-service jobs for five years after graduation, The Harvard Crimson reported. The school had allocated $3-million each year for the program. The Public Service Initiative was announced in 2008 as a way for students to lower their debt load so they could take on jobs in public service, which usually pay less than corporate positions. A dean wrote in an e-mail message to current students that they would still be able to participate in the program but incoming students would not. Fifty-eight third-year students benefit from the program this year.