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Editorials

EDITORIAL: Closing the Student Health Plan Affordability Gap

By The Cornell Daily Sun | January 28, 2019

If you go to Cornell, you either have a health insurance plan or you are a clever rulebreaker. If your parents didn’t shell out for eligible private insurance, then you’re likely on the University’s Student Health Plan, which is comprehensive and student-tailored. Students with lower incomes can enroll in a related plan, called SHP+, free of charge. So for most, enrolling in a health plan is but a matter of setting and forgetting. But not for everyone.

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Student Groups Educate Peers on Contribution Fee, Make Calls for Change

By Rochelle Li | November 15, 2018

Every Cornell student, regardless of financial aid status, is required to pay a student contribution fee.

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Students Host Teach-In to Discuss Student Contribution Fee

By Samantha Stern | November 15, 2018

The People’s Organizing Collective and Cornell’s First Generation Student Union are hosting a teach-in that will allow “undergrads to ask questions, speak to their own experiences, and connect with students organizing against predatory financial aid policies.”

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Cornell Raises Undergraduate Tuition by 3.75 Percent for Third Year in a Row

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs | February 27, 2018

The University will also be increasing its undergraduate financial aid by $10 million.

International Students

S.A. Members Plan to Provide Financial Assistance to International Students in ‘Extenuating Circumstances’

By Anne Snabes | January 26, 2018

Members of the Student Assembly have a plan in the works that would provide financial aid to international students in “extenuating circumstances” who do not already receive aid.

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Student Assembly Urges Cornell to Allow International Students to Access Emergency Aid

By Sabira Mehjabin | October 26, 2017

Oyindamola Adisa ’17, a student from Nigeria, said in a letter to S.A. that her father died of cancer months after she had been accepted to Cornell, and that his death had nearly kept her from attending the University.

News

Office of Financial Aid Pulls Plug on Foreign Student Employment Program

By Divyansha Sehgal | August 29, 2017

The Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment told students in an email that the Foreign Student Employment Program — the program that makes international students eligible for work study jobs — had been defunded.

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Cornell Updates Financial Aid Loan Policy Seeking to Increase Fairness

By Josh Girsky | May 9, 2017

Cornell’s Admissions and Financial Aid Working Group has decided to alter Cornell’s loan policy to more accurately reflect current U.S. income distributions.

Columns

GUEST ROOM | Don’t Cut Financial Aid Based on Bad Accounting

By Alex Bores | March 23, 2017

The important number for the university’s financial stability is actually net tuition revenue: undergraduate tuition minus financial aid. In other words, how much money does Cornell get from tuition after it pays out financial aid. If net tuition revenue is not growing as fast as costs, the university will eventually have to make some cuts to spending or find ways to increase revenue.

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Panel Addresses Questions, Concerns From DACA Students

By Anu Subramaniam | March 19, 2017

Aimed to address the community’s concerns for students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, particularly following President Donald Trump’s election, the University held a panel discussion to elaborate its policy.