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Article: Yale announces financial aid changes: plan will make Ivy League School more accessible.(In The News)
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- University Business
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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It was a scene reminiscent of another era. More than 150 Yale University (Conn.) students marched outside the Office of Undergraduate Admissions in late February while inside 15 students locked themselves inside an office for an eight-hour sit-in protesting the school's financial aid policies.
In the days that followed, Yale President Richard Levin announced sweeping changes in the university's financial aid program, Levin had already announced that changes were in the works for the program at an open forum two days before the protest, but some observers believe that media attention from the protest may have hastened his announcement.
"We wanted to ...