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University Information Systems took down a beta version of Harvard Connections—an online directory billed as “a richer, interactive site including user-generated content”—last Friday, just two days after its launch, due to privacy concerns raised by the Harvard community...
Mallur added in the statement that the beta version of the site was intended to allow users to familiarize themselves with new features and provide UIS with feedback...
...college students, few distinctions of prestige rival admission into Phi Beta Kappa. Since 1778, Harvard has annually considered the top students in the College for admission into PBK. Last week, however, officers of the Harvard-Radcliffe PBK Society announced that the process that determines which students will become members of the illustrious society will change. Instead of requiring students under consideration to provide letters of recommendations and upload their own transcripts, the chapter will consult the directors of undergraduate studies of the considered students’ concentrations after first obtaining academic records from the Registrar. This unfortunate change eliminates individual...
...Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society has changed its selection process for the final round of senior elections into the organization, PBK officers announced earlier this week...
...Many schools’ Phi Beta Kappa is determined solely by grade point average, and we have long felt that that is a narrow viewpoint,” McCarty said. “We want to look at academic excellence more broadly. The level of difficulty and the breath of academic experience that they show is more than a simple numerical calculation. We still preserve all of that in this process...