This week in college admissions, Yale goes tuition-free for many families, Binghamton will establish an AI research center, UC Davis receives a major gift for its veterinary school, and George Washington University pauses admissions to several doctoral programs.
Starting next fall, Yale will waive tuition for students from families earning up to $200,000, and will cover all costs for students from families earning up to $100,000 annually. Yale joins other elite schools such as Harvard, Princeton, and MIT in offering increasingly attractive financial aid packages for students from low- and middle-income families, as part of an effort to increase the economic diversity in its student body.
SUNY Binghamton has received $55 million to establish the Center for AI Responsibility and Research, the first such center at a public university. The center will be funded by a combination of a major gift from an alumnus and a capital investment from the New York State Legislature, and will build upon the research of Binghamton faculty to focus on ways to use AI for the public good.
UC Davis has received a $120 million gift to benefit its veterinary school. The gift, from philanthropists Joan and Sanford Weill, is one of the largest in the university’s history. The funds will be used to build a new small animal teaching hospital, as well as for research into illnesses that affect both humans and animals, such as cancer and neurological disorders.
George Washington University is pausing admissions to five Ph.D. programs for next fall due to financial difficulties. The programs affected include clinical psychology, political science, and mathematics. A university spokesperson said that the cuts do not represent a long-term closure of these programs, and that the university hopes to be able to fund them again in the future.
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