<p>From the Brown Daily Herald:</p>
<p>Now that the University has admitted its first class under an enhanced financial aid policy, it is clear the changes are affecting a significant number of students.</p>
<p>At Tuesday’s meeting of the Brown University Community Council, Provost David Kertzer '69 P’95 P’98 addressed the effect of the boost to financial aid approved by the Corporation in February, and provided new data on the financial aid makeup of the student body.</p>
<p>The number of students whose families do not have to make a contribution to tuition, for example - those earning less than $60,000 a year, under the new policy - has jumped from 284 to 818. Also, a greater number of students will not have loans in their financial aid packages this year, Kertzer said - 1,479, up from 143 last year. Sixty-one percent of students on financial aid, Kertzer said, will leave Brown debt-free.</p>