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Rabbi Toba E. Spitzer ’85-’86 said while she was undergraduate, she wasn’t sure she would even live to see the creation of women’s studies as an academic field at Harvard.
In 1985, Harvard was the sole Ivy League school without a Women’s Studies major. University officials appeared unconcerned about playing academic catch up, and the standing committee that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had formed in 1982 to examine the issue of women’s...
Students and UHS administrators have endlessly debated the quality of Harvard’s mental health services, which treats about 15 percent of the students in the College—or roughly 1,000 undergraduates—in any given school year, according to Director of Behavioral Health and Academic...
Two major changes shaped the University this year, one planned and one unplanned. The first was the shift in the College’s academic calendar, which most notably put fall-term exams in December and lengthened the winter break to almost five weeks. One noticeable effect was a compressed...
The calendar change also resulted in a much longer winter vacation. Unfortunately, the administration’s original plan to offer optional programming during this period was eliminated for budgetary reasons. This time period is a valuable opportunity for Harvard to offer supplementary courses for students. The school�...