Yale University has pledged $4-million each year through 2014 to support a program that will cover tuition at a public university in Connecticut for students who are residents of New Haven, maintain a B average in high school, and meet other academic and service requirements, the Hartford Courant reported. The program, called the New Haven Promise, was put together by the city’s mayor, the school superintendent, and the university. Yale’s president, Richard C. Levin, said the program would ultimately benefit the university by helping to prepare the city’s future work force.
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3 Responses to Yale U. Joins City of New Haven in Promise to Pay Public-College Tuition for Achieving Students
librarydirector - November 10, 2010 at 9:09 am
Having lived in New Haven for most of the 1980s, I am both happy that Yale is (slo-o-o-owly) beginning to pay for its arrogance and neglect of its host city, and flabbergasted at its tone-deafness. Let’s see, high-achieving local students and go away to some “lesser” university so they can come back, live in a crime-infested neighborhood, and, if they’re really lucky, get a job sweeping a lab at Yale? Give me a break. This is Ivy League paternalism at its worst.
cu_alum - November 10, 2010 at 3:12 pm
In response to #1: Yale already has a generous financial aid program for its own students, including those who come from New Haven. Yale is now going to spend an *additional* $4 million per year to help *other* New Haven students. It is not telling those students to go elsewhere; they are just as free to apply to Yale now as they were before. But those who either don’t want to go to Yale or who don’t get in can still benefit greatly from Yale’s resources. That doesn’t seem even remotely paternalistic to me.
It makes no sense to say Yale should admit all of these students. Most probably don’t meet Yale’s standards. Besides, even at Yale’s prices $4 million would cover room and board for almost 80 students each year. That means Yale would have to enroll 20 freshmen from New Haven every fall. I doubt that would happen even if it did offer full scholarships to all of them. And since some of these students wouldn’t need full scholarships, giving them the money would violate Yale’s policy of giving only need-based financial aid.
gplm2000 - November 11, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Maybe the lack of success by New Haven students is due to their culture. I don’t think that myself and friends are responsible, yet we always have to pay the price. But wait, we live in the suburbs so it must be our fault. I’m confused.