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By their graduation, the class of 1984 left Harvard struggling with what seemed to be a growing problem: year after year, more women at the University were reporting incidents of sexual harassment.Just months after the administration drafted a new policy that outlined procedures for reporting incidents of sexual misconduct, the...
To answer this, we need some history. Today’s departments didn’t always exist in their current form. Most of them coalesced late in the nineteenth century, as many U.S. universities shed their religious underpinnings and picked up the German style of higher education. Departments, in...
Fast-forward to the present. Now, in 2009, we’re operating within an intellectual structure that took shape more than a century ago. It’s a worthy and venerable old edifice, but definitely getting a bit creaky. The oddity of departmental existence struck me forcefully this...
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard College has striven over the past four years to impart on us a breadth and depth of knowledge that few institutions of higher learning could rival. From freshman seminars to sophomore tutorials to senior theses, we have all worked incredibly hard in...
Harvard further insulates us from the outside world through the easily-obtained extensions on assignments and exams that are offered to students. Many professors and teaching fellows grant extensions to students here, sometimes for legitimate reasons such as illness, and sometimes for less legitimate reasons such as procrastination and poor...