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...Students may also be contacted via telephone by faculty, admissions and financial aid staff, and members of the Undergraduate Admissions Council, Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, and Harvard Financial Aid Office over the next month as they evaluate their offers of admission...
...undisclosed number of students will be sent letters today telling them that they have been wait-listed. Fitzsimmons said that “we hope very much to take a substantial number” of students off the waitlist in May and June...
Although Harvard’s initial entry to iTunes may be somewhat less than groundbreaking, the administration’s commitment to an organized, centralized framework wherein more courses can be quickly added gives us hope that there is monumental potential for Harvard to easily and greatly augment its public offerings...
...much as it does with the administration. For some professors used to selling their intellectual property as expensive textbooks or through established distance learning programs like The Teaching Company, where full sets of course videos can sell for up to $800, the thought of giving away lectures for free may not be a pleasant one. The University ought to encourage such professors to abandon this limited and profit-seeking form of thinking...
...proliferation of free content from schools like Harvard may also alarm the many students who pay to attend, often at great financial inconvenience. After all, just this month, Harvard announced that the cost of tuition, room, and board will break the $50,000 barrier next year. Yet, though ironic in the face of increasing tuition, free academic content is not offered at the expense of students and in no way cheapens the value of a certified Harvard education. Students here and at other universities have direct and interactive access to libraries, educators, and each other, all of which...