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Beyond a general slackening of such demands, undergraduates affected by the transition also deserve clear, unequivocal information about the new Gen Ed program and the indefinite nature of their own position. That the College is yet to outline the specifics of Gen Ed to the incoming lass of 2012 in...
The number of Harvard students receiving the federally-funded Pell Grant continues to rise despite a trend in the opposite direction at the nation’s wealthiest colleges. According to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, the percentage of undergraduates receiving the...
That feeling of subjugation, a positive plunge from the heights of academic superiority, is for the best. It’s rare to come upon opportunities that offer such a direct means of teaching ourselves humility. We are told that volunteering might war with our ego-centrism, but many programs...
“Along with comprehensive academic and facilities planning, we also needed to evaluate how we could better present ourselves as a united organization with a common mission,” said Thomas W. Lentz, Harvard Art Museum director, in the statement.
What seems like an easy choice, however, will not be so obvious. A coherent vision for Gen Ed, with its notion of engaged intellectualism and global citizenship, of which we saw glimpses in the preliminary report from the Task Force on General Education, has quickly ceded to a nebulous, uninspiring...