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YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 · yaledailynews.com
FROM THE FRONT
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Promise reforms weighed
Holloway to leave Calhoun CALHOUN MASTER FROM PAGE 1 who filled in as Calhoun’s master during Holloway’s sabbatical, praised the outgoing master for his “light touch as a leader.” Holloway helped the council navigate a period of change while “keeping the college system healthy across the board,” Hungerford said in a Wednesday email. During the 2011–’12 academic year, Holloway took a sabbatical from the University that he said made him eager to “refocus on a broader scholarly agenda” and gave him time to finish a book that will be released in the next week or two.
[It is] time to let someone else have the great honor of leading this amazing community. JONATHAN HOLLOWAY GRD ’95 Master, Calhoun College Also factoring into his decision were his children, who have “grown up in the college,” he said. “Part of it is thinking about where our kids are academically and developmentally,” he said, describing his family’s integration into the college community as one of his favorite aspects of being master over the last eight years. Holloway said he will continue to teach in the History, American Studies and African American Studies departments. Calhoun students said the news came as a surprise and a disappointment, noting Holloway’s affability, attentiveness and sense of humor. Whether he was participating in an omelet cook-off in the dining hall or
sending scolding emails about latenight antics in the courtyard, they said, Holloway was a devoted master committed to building a home for students in the college. Lily Vanderbloemen ’16, a Calhoun master’s aide, said she was sitting in the courtyard when the news reached her inbox. “Everyone in the courtyard at the time was just astounded,” she said. “Usually his emails are giving us tickets to shows or about a special Master’s Tea. I was completely taken by surprise.” She said the master’s family — his two children and wife, Aisling Colon — are pillars of the college community. She recalled babysitting for the master’s children and eating with them in the dining hall. A former co-chair of Calhoun’s student activities committee, Elizabeth Henry ’14 said the college will not be the same without its beloved leader, but that she is glad to be leaving Calhoun with Holloway. “There’s something beautiful about it,” Henry said. “The class of 2014 will be the last class that Master Holloway graduates. As we leave Calhoun, so does he.” Henry recalled a surprise party she helped plan for Holloway before he left for his sabbatical in 2011, when students presented the master with a lifesized cutout representation of him so that “we could have him at events while he was gone,” she said. Meg Brink ’17 said Holloway is “really protective of Calhoun” and “always eager to help.” Her sister Laura Brink ’15 added that “everyone in Calhoun is sad” about the news. Holloway said he hopes to maintain ties to the college even when he moves out of the master’s house and into his family’s home in Cheshire, Conn.
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Calhoun College Master Jonathan Holloway GRD ’95 will leave his post after eight years leading the college. Though he is leaving the college, Calhoun will never leave Holloway, Jonathan Edwards College Master Penelope Laurans said. “Once you are master, you are never the same again,” Laurans said in an email. “You have a different, closer, more intimate relationship to the
institution. The college has become part of your blood.” Calhoun’s dean is Leslie Woodard, who could not be reached for comment Wednesday evening. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .
versity of Pennsylvania and Cornell, all partner schools of Say Yes, expressed similar motives for pursuing relationships with outside organizations. Thomas Keane, director of financial aid for scholarships and policy analysis at Cornell, said in an email to the News that Cornell sees its partnership with Say Yes as beneficial because it supplements its own recruiting efforts. Marlene Bruno, the financial services spokeswoman for the University of Pennsylvania, agreed and said the parternship helps Penn identify and communicate with high-achieving, low-income students the school may not have otherwise reached.
“These partnerships are one way in which the University aims to engage outstanding yet underserved students with high potential who might not otherwise have the opportunity to go to Penn,” Bruno said in her email. Caesar Storlazzi, Yale’s director of financial aid, said outside institutions may provide a similar type of assurance as Say Yes to students from the start. “[Students] can’t imagine how they could possibly afford the $62,000 price tag per year, and organizations such as QuestBridge [another institution that connects low-income students with higher education opportunities] help students understand that upfront,” he said.
Students such as Wafa Muflahi ’17 said specific information and a guarantee of tuition, as provided by Say Yes, would have been useful in the admissions and financial aid process.
[Students] can’t imagine how they could possibly afford the $62,000 price tag per year. CAESAR STORLAZZI Director of financial aid, Yale University Muflahi said Yale’s online financial aid calculator and information from
The [Promise] programs focus on improving the school district and economic growth. PATRICIA MELTON Executive director, New Haven Promise
college counselors left her uncertain as to exactly how much aid she would receive, which turned out to be $8,000 less per year than she had originally estimated. Muflahi said organizations such as Say Yes, which guarantee a certain amount of aid to urban students such as herself, could be extremely helpful. Say Yes to Education Higher Education Compact colleges include Columbia University, Harvard University, Rice University, Pomona College, Duke University and Georgetown University.
opment of the area where the program is implemented. “There are 14 Promise programs [in the United States]. Every single one has a [in-state] requirement,” Melton said. “The programs focus on improving the school district and economic growth.” Expansion of the program to include students who choose to attend out-of-state colleges is opposed by at least one member of the Promise Board — DeStefano. “One of the goals of Promise is to keep kids in state,” DeStefano said in a statement issued Sept. 16. “New Haven Promise is a benefit, not an entitlement. Keeping our talent local makes the most sense and is best for the future of New Haven.”
Contact HAILEY WINSTON at hailey. winston@yale.edu .
Contact DANIEL GIRALDO at william.giraldo@yale.edu .
Yale yet to join Say Yes compact SAY YES FROM PAGE 1
However, the expansion of the Promise Scholarship is not currently in the works, as Melton said the Board of Directors is not considering allowing students to use the scholarship to pay for tuition in out-ofstate colleges at the moment. She said that Promise is, at its essence, a “place-based scholarship.” The New Haven Promise program was founded in 2011 and modeled after similar programs started throughout the country, the first of which was the Kalamazoo Promise program in Kalamazoo, Mich. Similar Promise initiatives exist in Pittsburgh and West Virginia. These and other place-based scholarships focus on promoting college attendance and improving the economic devel-
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