William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard University.See also: Houston Program Connects Low-Income Students With Top Colleges.What we need to do is connect these students that we have here now, who are living the experience, with other students out there. 'We have close to 70 percent, actually, of our students on some kind of financial aid here - a quarter of the students now are $80,000 and under,' Fitzsimmons says. Suddenly the conversation I had with such a sympathetic food truck hipster about a year ago during an after-rush afternoon hour at the Smartcity Conference in Barcelona turns up. Since 2004, the university has used a radically simplified financial aid program: Families that make $65,000 or less per year contribute nothing towards the cost of tuition, room, board or fees.īut Fitzsimmons says the college wanted to make things easier for middle class families as well. In this online simulation, students try to run a successful food truck in the city of Boomtown. An exceptional performance would win him the opportunity to compete in a single professional race.

Some cities even have street food parks where gourmet food carts can congregate and sell their delicious food. Food trucks have become so popular that there is even shows called EAT ST.

William Fitzsimmons, the dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard, joins Here & Now's Robin Young to discuss the new program. Chef Berry’s Food Truck Challenge Synopsis: The gourmet food truck craze has hit many cities in North America. Launching this fall, it uses social media, videos and traditional outreach to help students know that an Ivy League education is within reach. ' Harvard College Connection' is a new initiative aimed at encouraging low-income students to apply to elite colleges. Facebook Email Harvard University's Massachusetts Hall. Harvard Business Publishing and Forio have released a new simulation, New Venture Exercise: The Food Truck Challenge.

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