The Department of Education announced a calculation error with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) that will delay financial aid award letters for 200,000 applicants.
The delay comes...
Eli Robinson, Alumni, Class of 2015
• October 19, 2023
Dear donors, students and alumni,
I am writing today to push the college to do the maximum good regarding their promise to meet “full need” of their students via the Upward Together financial...
Kainat Ansari, Opinion Columnist
• September 15, 2022
I can vividly picture the moment when I got accepted to Whitman. My excitement was at its peak because Whitman was one of the few colleges who gave me a generous scholarship. Like many other international...
Over the past few semesters, financial aid and the cost of attendance at Whitman have fluctuated; costs were down, then back up. For the 2020-21 school year, there was a 10 percent cut in tuition due to...
Whitman’s promise of diversity in student nationalities has led to a rise in international student enrollment over the past decade, buttressed by the college's policy to meet international students'...
On Feb. 2, 2021, President Murray sent a preliminary Financial Sustainability Review (FSR) to the Whitman community. Since then, there has been a continuous conversation surrounding these reports and their...
After a year as a pilot program, Whitman’s early financial aid guarantee is now finalized. The free program allows prospective students to learn how much financial aid they would receive from Whitman...
To maintain its status as an accredited institution, Whitman is currently undergoing its mid-cycle evaluation. This accreditation is a marker of the quality of higher education institutions.
Kendra...
Whitman’s decision to move to an online distance-learning system due to the coronavirus outbreak has left some student employees out of work and financially insecure.
Director of Human Resources Telara...
In the midst of Divest Whitman’s yearly campaign to remove fiscal investments in the fossil fuel industry, concerns have arisen recently about where the money to fully divest would come from; one potential...
Regardless of whether they receive work study or not, ask the average Whittie to define ‘work study,’ and chances are they will have a difficult time answering completely. While most know the term...
