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Students who stayed on campus during January Term without University approval may face disciplinary measures, though the severity of the repercussions remains unclear, according to Jay L. Ellison, associate dean of the College and secretary of the Administrative Board—the College??€™s primary disciplinary body...
...administration approved over 93 percent of more than 1,400 applicants for room and board on campus during the College??€™s inaugural J-Term. But that left thousands of undergraduates—facing the longest winter break in recent history—without permission to stay in the Houses...
Ellison met with an SJSF representative last fall to discuss the College??€™s policies and encouraged them to keep their protests within legal bounds...
...declaring a joint concentration requires an approval process that is unnecessarily difficult—art history and English as a pairing should be considered as intellectually worthwhile as English alone. The College??€™s approval process sends the message that studying two fields is inherently more suspect than studying one. Even worse, some fields, such as economics, apparently have no way to integrate with other subject areas—or so the College would have us think...
What should Harvard administrators learn from this long-dead thinker? College policies should allow students to be students: to study without rigid barriers to concentration choice. Even for those who happen to like art history and engineering sciences, the College??€™s attitude should not begin with the assumption that the unusual is aberrant...