Although some very small programs, which admit only one or two students per year, have committed university funds to provide tuition relief, a majority of Canadian MD/PhD students receive only CA$20,000 per year for 6 years, either through CIHR's MD/PhD studentship program, the Alberta Heritage Foundation, other granting agencies, or university endowments.
The figure for 2013 is expected to show a significant rise as new agreements came into force between the Scottish Funding Council and universities, which committed universities formally to widening access for the first time.
Since I didn't feel 100% committed to university, I thought I shouldn't pay that much to go.
Among other things, this committed the university to ensure that within one year, it would purchase or produce at least 15% of the institution's electric consumption from renewable sources.
"They'd say, 'Coach, we're not paying for his trip.' " According to Drew Cannon, a Duke student who does research for Telep, 51 of Telep's top 100 senior basketball prospects had already unofficially committed to universities by Sept. 1.
The organization's objective is to include committed European universities in the network so that they may share their knowledge and expertise in the field of sustainable development.
It is worth remembering that at the time of World War I, Presidents John Grier Hibben of Princeton and Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia committed their universities to a "war policy" and did all that they could to repress dissent.
And in our rush to preëmpt future mass shootings, we don't want to start involuntarily committing any university professor who is given to erratic behavior.
In an interview, Chris Gordon, the chief operating officer of the Allston Development group at Harvard, said he welcomed the opportunity to commit the university to the new standards.
The lease package, which also turns over the Sports Arena to USC, commits the university to spending up to $100 million on improvements in the Coliseum.
Both those firms have invested only a small fraction of the capital committed by the university, according to Trey Thompson, managing director of the university investment management company.
