Harvard is offering free tuition for students that have a family income below $60,000.   If you are a mentor or have nieces and nephews who might be interested, please give them this information. If you know anyone/family earning less than $60K with a brilliant child near ready for college, please pass this along.

Harvard's Tuition Announcement Highlights Failure of Prestigious Universities to Enroll Low-Income Students March 1, 2004, Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families will pay no tuition. In making the announcement, Harvard's president Lawrence H. Summers said, "When only 10 percent of the students in elite higher education come from families in lower half the income distribution, we are not doing enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the lower half of the income distribution."

If you know of a family earning less than $60,000 a year with an honor student graduating from high school soon, Harvard University wants to pay the tuition. The prestigious university recently announced that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families can go to Harvard for free...no tuition and no student loans!  To find out more about Harvard offering free  tuition for families making less than $60,000 a year visit Harvard's financial aid web site at: http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu or call the school's financial aid office at (617) 495-1581.

This initiative puts severe pressure on other well-endowed colleges and universities to adopt similar measures. Some commentators believe that Harvard's announcement was made in response to Princeton University 's decision six years ago to eliminate all tuition charges for families earning less than $60,000 (adjusted annually to take inflation into account) and its subsequent decision three years later to substitute all student loans with outright grants. The Harvard announcement indicates that the Princeton plan has had some success in drawing to Princeton some of the high- achieving, low-income students who typically went to Harvard each year.

Many of you know or know of young people who could benefit.  Let's get
this info into their hands ASAP.

  PLEASE PASS ON TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE:

  1. "O" The Oprah Magazine is looking to hire fall interns in the
Fashion and Style Departments. Candidates must be highly organized,
detail-oriented and be able to juggle multiple tasks at once. Prior
internship experience preferred, but not required. This opportunity is
available for college students in need of credit hours and recent
graduates who are available to start immediately, full-time from 10:00
a.m. to 6:00 p.m., 5 days a week. Send resumes with a cover letter to:
Cindy M. del Rosario, Associate Editor O, The Oprah Magazine 1700
Broadway, 38th floor NY, or call 212-903-5149.

   2. Verizon is looking for students who are 2006 graduates of
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). If you know of
someone graduating from a HBCU this year with a degree in Engineering,
Computer Science and Technology, Information Technology,
General Business, Finance or Marketing, please have them forward their
resume to:  melissa.w.langham@verizon.com to be considered for career
opportunities within Verizon.

   3. The Women's Technology Program at MIT is a 4-week summer
residence program to introduce high school girls to electrical
engineering and computer science. If you know a girl who is currently a
high school junior who demonstrates math and science ability and an
interest in finding out about EECS, please encourage her to visit our
website for more information and for an application form applications
are due Feb 3, 2005) http://wtp.mit.edu Our classes are taught in a
supportive environment by a staff of women MIT PhD candidates and
undergraduates.

The full-time academic program includes hands-on experiments and
team-based projects in computer science, electrical engineering, and
mathematics. No prior experience in computer programming, physics, or
electrical engineering is expected, but applicants typically have strong
academic records, especially in math and science.

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