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...College can offer a housing-only option with no meal plan to those students engaged in off-campus activities. Ultimately, January was intended to provide students a time and space to pursue non-academic or non-traditional interests. If the College is too financially strapped to actually provide coursework for such pursuits, the least it can do is to provide a space for student groups and other institutions to create such programming...
Though a January without College programming certainly dealt a blow to our vision of calendar reform, we hope that, going forward, the College makes strides to increase the opportunities available to students. The financial recession may have made January coursework too expensive for the College, but a number of less costly initiatives can help students pursue meaningful extracurricular, athletic, academic, or career-related activities during these few weeks...
Moreover, the College can also help to expand student options by advising undergrads on various January opportunities, both within the U.S. and abroad. A well-structured advising program—replete with information about international experiences, internships, coursework, research, and travel funding—would be a very effective way to facilitate valuable experiences for students. For such a program to be effective, however, the College must work quickly to find and publicize these opportunities to students, who are no doubt anxious about where they will be in January...
...don’t think Harvard has a huge need for that sort of course right now,” said Classics concentrator Paul T. Mumma ’09. “If you want to find coursework on the great books, you can find that—it’s just up to the individual to find...
...think that in the recent past there has been some sort of feeling that somehow student activities and general welfare outside of coursework is a little bit lacking,” said Zogran. “So being architects and urban designers, we tend to look at the structure of the physical environment to see if that is a contributing factor...