Good News Headlines 12/2/2024
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MIT Will Make Tuition Free For Families Earning Less Than $200,000 A Year
by Neal Riley, CBS News
MIT says that starting in the fall of 2025, students from families with incomes under $200,000 a year will not be charged tuition. Families making under $100,000 will not have to pay housing, dining or other fees, and they’ll have an allowance for books and other personal expenses. Currently, the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts waives tuition for families earning less than $140,000 and fees are also covered for those making less than $75,000. “The cost of college is a real concern for families across the board, and we’re determined to make this transformative educational experience available to the most talented students,” MIT President Sally Kornbluth said in a statement.
Woman Learns Her Adoptive Mom Had Secretly Been Writing To Her Biological Mother For 17 Years
by Heather Wake, Upworthy
Closed adoptions, meaning there is no contact between the biological parents and adoptive families, offer privacy, protection and emotional closure. However—and understandably—it can still be incredibly difficult for biological mothers to instantly and drastically remove their biological child from their life. This was the case for Alicia Mae Holloway’s biological mom. In a video shared to her TikTok account, the dancer and television personality shared that her adoptive mother, Evelyn, “saw how hard it was” for her birth mom to give Holloway up for adoption. So Evelyn came up with a kind gesture that Holloway dubbed “the sweetest thing.”
Free Hotel Rooms On Thanksgiving, Christmas Offered To Patient Families At 2 Massachusetts Hospitals
by WBZ-News Staff, CBS News
A hotel in Massachusetts is offering free rooms to families who have someone in the hospital during Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Doubletree on Old River Road in Andover will let families of patients at Lawrence General Hospital and the Holy Family Hospital campuses in Haverhill and Methuen stay there at no cost on Wednesday, November 27, Thursday November 28, Tuesday, December 24 and Wednesday, December 25. They can stay one or two nights, as long as there are rooms available, and you have a valid identification from one of the hospitals.
Boston Hospital Is Treating Food as Medicine with its Own Rooftop Garden
by Andy Corbley, Good News Network
It’s a paradox found all over the world: why is it so common for hospital food to be essentially bad for you? Tackling the problem head-on, Boston Medical Center—already one of the greenest hospitals in the nation—has opened two large rooftop gardens, giving patients and physicians alike access to fresh food while adding green space to the hospital campus. BMC had one rooftop garden through which it supplied fresh foods to its cafeteria and inpatient catering, but now a second one, utilizing the ample rooftop space of the hospital campus, is also able to provide fresh foods to underserved communities.
In The Race To Attract Students, Historically Black Colleges Sprint Out Front
by Ira Porter, Christian Science Monitor
By the last Friday in October, North Carolina Central University sophomore Autumn King had attended a talent show, the school’s coronation ball, and a gospel concert – all in a matter of days. That evening, she was preparing to attend a fraternity and sorority step show in the basketball gymnasium. October and early November are the most glorious time of the year at historically Black colleges and universities: homecoming season. “I really enjoy going to things in general, because I have a lot of family history at this school,” says the apparel design major, originally from Charlottesville, Virginia, while at lunch with her friends on campus.
