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The 35-member Ad Board—which includes professors, resident deans, and other College administrators—is charged with enforcing Harvard’s academic rules and loosely defined “standards of social conduct.”
Senior Harvard Corporation member Robert E. Rubin ’60 made his first public appearance on campus this academic year today, after skipping commencement, President Drew G. Faust’s appointment, and her installation—events traditionally attended by Corporation members.
Few areas better reflect this trend than our nation’s bastions of higher education. In the past 10 years, the number of U.S. students studying abroad has more than doubled. Under the administration of former University President Larry H. Summers, Harvard’s own undergraduate pedagogy has...
I need not expound upon the wonders of international experience for a student’s personal development. It widens perspective, displaces bigotry, and uproots hypocrisy. It is a noble endeavor in the ongoing quest for human understanding and we, the educated, pride ourselves upon it. However, for all the...
Outside of academics, another popular method of international experience among undergraduates is participation in programs that teach English as a second or other language (TESOL). WorldTeach, for instance, is a Harvard-based NGO of high repute that sends student teachers to developing nations. Many other similar programs have arisen, especially...