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Harvard University will raise undergraduate tuition 3.5%, to $33,696 a year, and reconsider its planned expansion into Boston’s Allston neighborhood after record losses to its endowment.
Construction of a science complex will slow this year and broader plans for developing the Allston campus are delayed, President Drew Gilpin Faust said in a letter posted on Harvard’s website.
The Cambridge, Mass., school said in December that its endowment, the richest in education, lost $8 billion, or 22%, in the four months that ended Oct. 31.
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