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After months of silence since an extensive discussion at the Oct. 6 Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting, the Harvard Extension School announced yesterday that it had not forgotten plans to change its name.
The Committee on Continuing Education had discussed the possibility of renaming the Extension School to the “Harvard School of Continuing and Professional Studies,” as it felt its century-old name did not adequately reflect its mission. The term, “Extension School,?...
Parker emphasized the importance of institutions such as the Extension School for providing knowledge that could potentially combat greed and short-sightedness on Wall Street.
He also characterized the duty of the Extension School as training a new generation of leaders, describing the institution as the “Hope Diamond in the crown of knowledge.”
The Harvard Extension School launched its own iTunes content page in Feb. 2007 and currently publishes lecture videos of full courses as well as short previews of other classes.