Yale School of Music to Go Tuition-Free (Receives $100 Million donation)

[Scooter24]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_re_us/yale_donation;_ylt=Aqu9a2QOAMeF4ARF6Jf9Gqes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

Nov. 2, 2005

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale University's School of Music is doing away with tuition after receiving a $100 million donation.

Acting Dean Thomas C. Duffy said Wednesday the university will stop charging students next year. Duffy said the donors want to remain anonymous.

Duffy said the donation will also allow the school to buy technology to host clinics and workshops with people around the world.

Tuition this year at the Yale School of Music is $23,750.

[YDogg]

1. I heard about that a day or two ago. Sounds wonderful.

:bounce:

[ananda]

2. Whoa!!

I'd like to know who that donor is.

Well done!

Of course, we all know that only a fraction of billionaire's incomes would pay for the college education of every student in the USA.

Sue

[Midlodemocrat]

4. I work in the non-profit sector and you would be amazed

at how many donations along those same lines people make. It would blow your mind.

$25 million, $50 million, $100 million. Incredible amounts of money.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Wow! Now I am definitely going to push my daughter

into going to Yale!!!!

:bounce:

[Metta]

5. What great news!!!

Makes me want to go there and get as much schooling as I can. Great news!

[Runcible Spoon]

6. I don't know how I feel about this.

as a phd student in the social sciences at a public institution working very hard to live on a $20,000 year fellowship, it just seems like these huge gifts just perpetuate the Ivy League Elite Lie, especially in a department like music...donors just LOVE to fund the arts but for some stupid reason I'm being petty and thinking this money could have funded another, more "worthy" :hide: department. I'm extremely sympathetic to the fact that the arts are losing funding under the * admin, and I know all the arguments about enriching our culture, but in my experience most Ivy League music majors come from money anyway and just perpetuate the whole viscious cycle. And don't give me random anecdotes about the cellist from Bed Stuy who got a full scholarship and joined the Philharmonic and got his mother out of the ghetto blah blah. We should all know that these kinds of mythic American stories of success against all odds just perpetuate the hegemonic ideology of absolute personal responsibility and if you fail, it's because you're lazy/stupid/on welfare, etc. In sum, I don't really see the large scale social benefit as compared to how this money could have been used. Of course, it IS private money and the donors can do whatever they want, but as a pretty fully entrenched member of the American educational system, I have the right to comment on it.

[redwitch]

7. considering the arts get short shrift at the K-12 level

I think it's great. Wish my guy had the same deal at Berklee.

[Runcible Spoon]

9. that's a bit irrelevant to this discussion,

though your point is well-taken and it IS alarming how arts programs are often the first cut from the curriculum. Let's be honest though: what are the chances that a kid from a school with a compromised arts program could even GET INTO Yale? This is why I see your point as a red herring, although I too decry to pillaging of arts funding in schools; however this is a separate issue.

[redwitch]

11. sorry, I lost track mid post- interrupted by family confusion

I will finish my thought here. People give money to colleges all the time- and for all different programs and fields of study. This time the arts lucked out, sometimes it is wonderful grants for medicine, law. My hubby got his bachelors degree at Cooper Union in photography - tuition free. He wouldn't have been able to go otherwise-he's from a middle class family with five kids.

[ComerPerro]

8. You're exactly right, though. I wonder if anyone will actually

be able to fully take advantage of this.

Or if it will just ensure that rich kids now won't have to pay anything at all.

[Runcible Spoon]

10. I'm always a bit skeptical of huge gifts like this.

there's no such thing as pure benevolence..maybe I'm just sour bc. private donors could give a shit about anthropologists :evilgrin: But seriously I'm looking at mid $30,000's starting salary if I can even GET tenure after I finish phd in 2 more years; for that much freakin' education (it'll be 9-10 years for me from bachelor's to MA to phd) I am always amazed at how poorly we are paid.

[redwitch]

14. I try not to think of what awaits my guy after college

He will have a bachelors in music- no desire to teach. I thought for awhile he should consider something more "practical". Then I thought, hmmm, I can imagine a world without accountants, but not without musicians. It is really hard for us to come up with the tuition and living expenses though.

[redwitch]

13. not all music students who go to Yale are rich.

wealth is no indication of musical talent. probably some great kids will get to go who fall between the cracks otherwise. Middle of the road kids who aren't offered the big scholarships.

[seemunkee]

12. Just took a look. Master programs only.

[Scooter24]

15. it says "all students" in it's press release...

http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/05-11-02-02.all.html

New Haven, Conn. — The Yale School of Music has received a gift of $100 million that will allow the school to subsidize fully the tuition for all students, Yale President Richard C. Levin has announced.

Levin said the gift, the largest in the history of the music school, came from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous.

“This generous gift will enhance the ability of the school to attract the world’s finest musicians and will support a number of important advances at the school,” Levin said. “Everyone who is part of Yale’s standing as a great center for the arts will be inspired to reach new heights.”

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However, I know the School of Music is one of their Professional Schools. Not sure if this extends to the Undergrad major or not.

[seemunkee]

16. I looked at the schools web site and all they offer are masters

Please note that the
Yale School of Music
is a graduate professional school within
Yale University,
offering Masters and
Doctoral degrees,
the Certificate in
Peformance, and
the Artist Diploma

There is a department of music but that doesn't seem to be covered