UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors

Re:UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors t... by MiroF on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:25PM (#24561978)

At Harvard at least, there is a "dorm crew", comprised mostly of poorer students meeting their term-time work requirements that come with finaid, that is responsible for cleaning the in-suite bathrooms.

I think I recall recently reading that some schools might have finally eliminated the requirement (maybe, Yale?) but I'm not sure. It was definitely the case at Harvard as of ~March 2020. (but probably not for this year for obvious reasons!)

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Re:UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors t... by finolex1 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:24PM (#24562309)

Yale has a `student income contribution`, where students on finanical aid are expected to work in some term-time jobs. However these jobs are virtually all administrative (doing paperwork, making calls, etc.), research or teaching assistant-ships. I have not heard of poorer students doing any cleaning.

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Re:UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors t... by MiroF on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:32PM (#24562362)

Here's a brief article on the practice https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/4/8/dorm-crew-tweets...

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