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Platform for Financial Aid Reform (in .pdf)
Adopted October 27, 2004
[Note: Italicized demands have been won, but we're still fighting for truly comprehensive aid reform – including the demands that have not yet been won – and actively monitoring the implementation of Yale's recent policy changes.]
We call on Yale to better ensure equality of access, experience, and opportunity for all of its students.
(a.) Yale should increase economic diversity among its students by:
- increasing recuriting in rural and urban low-income areas.
- adopting a policy of not requiring a family contribution from families with an annual income of $40,000 or less, modeled on a policy recently adopted by Harvard University.
(b.) Yale should work to decrease the financial burden on its students by:
- reforming the summer contribution so that it is lower and can be waived at least once*, and providing an advising service to help financial aid students find stimulating summer employment.
- decreasing the student self-help amount by half, so that it can be fully paid by a campus job of ten hours per week.
- easing the process of finding a job on campus by reforming the SFS website, giving non-work-study financial aid students perference for on-campus jobs, and offering to pay for some community-service, extracurricular, or non-credit academic endeavors.
- assisting international students and their families by keeping dorms open during winter break and providing resources for more than one trip home over four years.
- easing the burden on families by not considering a primary home as an asset in calculating family contribution, delineating per-parent contributions for students with separated parents, and letting outside scholarships over the student-contribution level go toward the family contribution.
(c.) Yale should increase the transparency and accountability of its financial aid office by:
- introducing a mandatory financial aid information session for first-year students during the first weeks of the fall semester.
- educating freshman counselors on issues of financial aid and economic diversity or assigning an "economic freshman counselor" (based on the model of ethnic counselors) to each college.
- publishing more data relating to the economic makeup of Yale College students.
- committing to a position of leadership among peer institutions in promoting economic diversity and equality among students.
*Yale has agreed to waive the summer contribution for students studying abroad over the summer in Yale programs. We are still asking that a waiver be available to all students.
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