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...have not retreated from what we know is important. In the upcoming academic year, Harvard College will increase financial aid for undergraduates by nine percent, to a record $158 million. This $13 million increase will help keep Harvard affordable and ensure no change in the cost of attendance for the students who receive aid (i.e., for more than 60 percent of our students...
While we did give up some things over the past 18 months, Harvard remains an environment of unique depth and breadth. For instance, in FAS we offer instruction in more than 70 ancient and modern languages, far more than any other American university. No language programs were eliminated because of the financial crisis. In fact, we moved forward; this year we launched new “bridge” courses that integrate language instruction (such as Arabic and Chinese) into literature and other content instruction...
...Harvard undergraduates continue to be deeply embedded in the transformative, cutting-edge research and scholarship of our faculty. Our students become engaged in forging new discoveries and new ways of thinking in fields that bear on the world’s foremost challenges and opportunities, from renewable-energy policies, to stem cell science, to human rights. Our identity as an undergraduate college at the heart of a thriving research university informs every aspect of Harvard’s approach to a 21st century liberal-arts education...
Michael D. Smith is the John H. Finley, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University...
...Nigeria formally severed with the British Empire following 160 years of colonial rule, and soon thereafter appointed Nnamdi Azikiwe its head of state. As fanfare and festivities erupted that week in the city of Lagos, roughly 30 Nigerian students attending universities in the Boston area celebrated remotely, alongside then-Harvard undergraduate Chukwuma B. Azikiwe ’63, son of the man who would soon take the helm of the most populous nation in Africa...