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Harvard’s current policy of non-funding for ROTC was formulated by a student-faculty committee in the early 1990s and stems from an incident in which David E. Carney ’89, a Harvard cadet enrolled at MIT??s ROTC program, was expelled from the organization when his homosexuality was revealed...
...MIT??s pledge to share its entire curriculum, and to place its entire institution behind this ambitious effort, could transform the way in which content is made available to all who want access to it,” commented William G. Bowen, president of the Mellon Foundation...
...first phase of OCW will go online next fall with the goal of putting 500 courses on the Internet. All of MIT??s course material will be available within eight years, according to the initial timetable...
...redefine its place in an era of globalization, placing an emphasis on cross-border collaboration, international study and universal values. Summers will also be charged with formulating Harvard’s response to the development of new technologies for the worldwide dissemination of knowledge, especially in the context of MIT??s decision to make class materials universally available via the Internet...
...world thinks about education, MIT announced last week that it was putting materials for its nearly 2,000 courses on the Web. The 10-year project, called MIT OpenCourseWare, would allow anyone, anywhere in the world, to read lecture notes, try problem sets and browse syllabi for any of MIT??s courses. We hope that MIT??s courageous decision will be copied by other universities—especially Harvard—for the sake of those who will be able to learn from the far corners of the globe, as well as the universities?...