美国高校加大经济援助力度(2)【沪江慢速VOA080117】
哈佛大学做出了扩大财政援助的决定，这给了其他学校(是否)照办的压力
US Colleges Move to Increase Financial Aid(2/2)
What Harvard has done is change the way it offers financial aid. Undergraduates will not be expected to take out loans. Increases in grant aid will replace loans. Also, Harvard officials will no longer consider the value of a family's home when deciding how much aid to give.
Harvard says it expects to spend up to twenty-two million dollars more a year in financial aid. This will come from its endowment. A college endowment is money given by former students and others as gifts. Schools invest the money to earn more. Harvard’s endowment is valued at thirty-five billion dollars.
Other universities with large endowments are also changing their financial aid policies. Examples include Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.
Yale’s endowment is the second largest after Harvard, at twenty-two and a half billion dollars. This week, Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, announced it will use more of that money for financial aid as well as scientific research. Yale may also admit more students.But some colleges say they simply do not have enough money to compete with the new policies that are being announced.
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哈佛所做的只是改变了提供经济援助的方式。本科生将不再需要贷款。奖学金资助的增加将取代贷款。而且，在决定给予多少资助时，哈佛的工作人员将不用再考虑家庭财富这个因素。
哈佛说预计其每年在经济援助方面的花费将达2200万美元以上。这些资金来自于它们的捐赠基金。大学捐赠基金是指由前校友或其他人作为礼物捐助给学校的金钱。学校用这些钱投资以获得更多的资金。哈佛的捐赠基金价值350亿美元。
其他拥有大量捐赠基金的学校也改变了他们的经济援助政策。 这包括耶鲁、普林斯顿和宾夕法尼亚大学。
耶鲁的捐赠基金仅次于哈佛排第二，达225亿美元。本周，康涅狄格州，纽黑文的耶鲁大学宣布其将同时为经济援助和科学研究提供更多的资金。耶鲁也将接收更多的学生。但是，一些学校仅表示他们没有足够的资金以满足将被宣布的新政策。
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