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The College will be closed to students from Dec. 22 to Jan. 15, 2011, but the campus will reopen on Jan. 16—approximately a week before second semester classes commence, according to Hammonds’s statement, which was sent to the undergraduate community.
Before the announcement was made, student groups such as the Institute of Politics and the Phillips Brooks House Association had articulated a desire to organize their own events during J-Term. The Undergraduate Council had also released a January Term position paper in February advocating student group-initiated programming, which...
The College administration is planning to build an online portal for next year’s J-Term, which will host the application for housing. The portal will also list all programming taking place on campus during the month-long period and provide resources to help off-campus students find...
The longer winter vacation was created as part of the University’s calendar reform, which took effect this academic year. Though originally touted as a unique opportunity to offer interesting programming for students, the administration announced last spring that the College would offer no programming and limited housing...
In this particular case, a company called EduMentry that hires workers in India, Malaysia and Singapore provided a service called Virtual TA, which grades papers for large classes that lack enough teaching assistants. Outsourcing in this manner takes away from the education that students are receiving, as there is considerable...