Harvard University plans to increase its financial-aid budget for graduate students in arts and sciences by 25 per cent, spending an extra $5.7-million a year, campus officials announced Wednesday.

In addition, Harvard announced that its graduate students would be eligible for five-year financial-aid packages, instead of the two-year packages it has provided in the past. Harvard's announcement comes at a time when graduate deans and professors...

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