Harvard Public Service Initiative - Suspended

[unbelievablem]

<p>according to the article, the economy played a big role in two ways – endowment earnings to fund the program were way down –

“It’s really a function of the endowment going down drastically,” said Robb London, the law school’s assistant dean for communications.

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<p>AND also – with the economy’s effects on law firm jobs –

But with the faltering economy, the program was highly popular. This year, Mr. London said, 73 third-year students are getting $10,000 off their tuition. (Free tuition takes effect with next year’s third-year class.) And with law-firm jobs drying up, when it came time to sign up last year, 110 first-year students said they were interested.

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<p>harvard had typically see only about 10% of its class go into public interest jobs.</p>

<p>i thought other schools had loan forgiveness programs for those entering the public sector – not the same thing as this program, but if the decline in law firm jobs increases graduates heading to such jobs, i would think such programs could also be threatened if costs for them soar.</p>