Word: academicization
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If there is any indication of the extent of it, students at Harvard refer to the “Harvard bubble” as seriously and frequently as the current financial news on the so-called “housing bubble.” Like the housing bubble, the Harvard...
The point is, while we are stuck in the Harvard bubble, it is easy to become so wrapped up in personal goals that we forget to smell the proverbial roses, or read overhead signs carved in stone. A competitive bunch by definition, Harvard students spend much of their time involved...
The cost, it seems, lies in students’ stress levels and mental health. According to the most recent senior survey conducted by The Harvard Crimson in 2007, 40 percent of students said they had solicited mental health treatment during their college years. This statistic, though daunting, is hardly a...
International students are also consistently impeded from U.S. educational opportunities. Anyone seeking academic or vocational visas (F, J, and M visas) may have to pay up to $200 when new changes take effect on October 1, 2009. International students already come largely from high-income backgrounds, as they are not...
The academic environment at universities is served greatly by a diversity of thought and opinion. Often this is most perceptibly reflected in student journalism. This year, though, censorship of the student presses at many prominent schools threatened to compromise the free speech environment that is essential to a quality education...