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University Finances

Central Administration

Students, Corporation To Discuss Social Choice Fund

Five students will meet with the Harvard Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility this Friday to discuss the details of a social choice fund, the creation of which the University announced in December.

FAS

After Fiscal Deal, Funding Cuts Still Loom for Harvard

Congressional lawmakers reached an eleventh-hour deal late Tuesday to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, largely postponing what will likely be far-reaching spending cuts expected to cost Harvard and other research universities millions of dollars in federal sponsorship.

FAS

Harvard Braces for Decline in Federal Funding

As Washington lawmakers scramble to reach a last-minute budget deal before the end of the year, Harvard and other research universities are bracing for what would be the most dramatic cut in federal research funding in recent history.

University Finances

Harvard To Establish Social Choice Fund

Following months of pressure from students and alumni and similar decisions at other schools, Harvard announced on Thursday that it will create a social choice fund.

Student Groups

University Leaders To Meet With Divestment Advocates

University leaders will sit down with student advocates of fossil fuel divestment and explore the possibility of creating a social choice fund, senior University officials told The Crimson this week.

Student Groups

University Leaders To Meet With Student Advocates About Divestment

University leaders will sit down with student advocates of fossil fuel divestment and explore the possibility of creating a social choice fund, senior University officials told The Crimson this week.

Endowment

Harvard Corporation Increases Endowment Distribution

The Harvard Corporation approved a 2 percent increase in Harvard’s endowment distribution, the revenues which the University receives annually from the endowment, from fiscal year 2013 to fiscal year 2014, according to an excerpt from Harvard’s budget guidance documents obtained by The Crimson.

Central Administration

As Other Colleges Discuss Divestment, Harvard Stays Mum

While a number of colleges have expressed enthusiasm at the overwhelming Harvard student support for the divestment of the University’s endowment from the fossil fuel industry, many student leaders also voiced concern at the Harvard administration’s silence on the issue.

Central Administration

University 'Not Considering' Divestment

A week after about 2,600 undergraduates voted in support of a referendum calling for Harvard to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry, a Harvard spokesperson said on Wednesday that the University has no plans to adjust its investment portfolio in response to the student plebiscite.

College Finance

University's Annual Report Shows Rise in Deficit, Decrease in Total Debt

Harvard sustained a small deficit of $4.5 million in the last fiscal year resulting from a 3 percent increase in University operating costs, according to the annual University Financial Report released Friday morning.

House Life

Housing Problems, FAS Deficit, and Harvard Prep

Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.

Sasanka N. Jinadasa
Scrutiny

Graduating with Debt

“It’s like a paycheck-to-paycheck sort of process,” says Sasanka N. Jinadasa ’15 as she sits in Lowell dining hall.

Labor

Harvard Club May Sell Back Bay Annex

The Harvard Club of Boston is considering selling its “annex,” the building that sits to the right of the main clubhouse on Commonwealth Ave. in the Back Bay, according to the Club’s president, Nicholas J. Iselin ’87.

College Finance

Jay Herlihy Appointed Dean of Finance for FAS

Jay Herlihy will be the new Dean of Finance for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as of Sept. 26, according to an email sent to members of FAS Friday morning.

University Finances

The Cost Of Attending Harvard: Less Than You Thought

Data analysis done by Steven Syre at The Boston Globe has revealed that the actual cost of attending Harvard—with financial aid factored in—is considerably less than it initially appears.

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