Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Associate in Arts," until that term came to imply a two-year program; "Adjunct in Arts" since 1933, when Harvard also approved the awarding of the degree to both men and women, an early milestone in equal educational access and recognition for women: and finally admitting its recipients to unequivocal first rank standing in 1960, with the change to the more generally recognized title of "Bachelor of Arts in Extension Studies," preceded if desired by the two-year "Associate in Arts...
...relatively recent concession to the quality and dedication of advanced degree candidates in the Extension does permit us access to Harvard faculty not directly teaching in Extension in one particular year: Independent Study. Credited as a half-course, it allows the serious student to explore an idea or a project under the guidance of any member of the Harvard Faculty, equivalent to the 91 r "Directed Reading." This spring I am researching and documenting recent developments in Chile with Professor Harvey Cox at the Divinity School, in conjunction with his course of "Religion and Society in Contemporary Latin America...
...theory that productive learning is measured by the credit-mile, and extracurricular acclimatization is a luxury inconsequential to one's ultimate distinction. Extension degree candidates have no established access to such revitalizing facilities as sports, drams and music groups, clubs or scholarship funds, not to mentions, until now, a voice in The Crimson, Certainly the small--though growing--proportion of seriously continuing students would hardly deplete Harvard's physical and financial endowment. with many younger people breaking the traditional four year syndromes is embark on necessary remunerative work during their "college years," the option to participate fully in all aspect...
...artificial generation gap between the College young and their extended elders deprives everyone of valuable resources. In college activities volunteer participation by older student experienced in a particular field can provide not only solid advice (solicited or not!) but also access to job opportunities, at the very least a chance to explore the working world guided by a friend. For the busily aging "undergrad" who may be preparing for career change, sharing the learning process in extracurricular activities at the College can be crucial, especially gratifying in company of other admitted novices a rare circumstance indeed in the real world...
...vast flow of "White House photographs," selected to show a thoughtful and very human President in firm command of the nation's problems, floods the media. At the same time, access to the man is blocked by the White House Press Office...