"Exorbitant loans are justified on the grounds of the value of the product they purport to put out — namely, students that generate income (which then, in theory, enables them to pay off their educational debt)." Tuition-free public universities, aside from the armed-forces colleges, are almost completely obsolete.
She also has received aid that Dominican University sets aside for illegal immigrants — a rarity in higher education.
Fewer than half receive housing scholarships, which come from part of the additional $251,000 the university sets aside to supplement its migrant services.
Afterwards we all made our way from the open fields through the sports halls to the bit of the university set aside for interviews.
The university set aside the equivalent of 2.5 to 5.3 percent of each employee's salary from a given year in a separate account with a guaranteed return of 7.5 or 8.5 percent, which varied depending on when the allocation was offered.
In January, the university swept aside the lab's top management as part of a major reform effort, and DOE announced that it was considering canceling the contract (Science, 10 January, p. 184).
He pointed to other elements of the plan, including the requirement that universities set aside a fifth of any increased fee revenue for scholarships for disadvantaged students.
For example, if universities set aside special funding for the support of couples, if grant-giving agencies introduce specific grants that support scientist couples and working parents, this would be a positive sign.
A later source of anxiety was India's affirmative action (or "reservation") policies, which set aside university slots and civil-service jobs for people from recognised historically stigmatised groups, known as "scheduled castes and tribes".
Students said there were few reminders that they attended a Catholic university at all, aside from the glistening white church at the center of campus or the occasional cross on a classroom wall.
