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...undergraduate engineers. If students want to come to Harvard to study engineering, they should have a world-class program at their disposal, shouldn’t he? The fact that Harvard annually loses scores of admitted would-be engineering undergrads to schools with better-developed and better-hyped engineering programs??like Stanford, Princeton, and MIT—is a bad thing, right? Not necessarily.American college students take part in a unique educational tradition. Unlike their peers in Canada or Britain (or South Africa, or Indonesia, or just about anywhere else), undergraduates in this country profit from a liberal...
...Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71. The full Faculty approved the Curricular Review legislation to implement secondary fields a month ago.Secondary fields will not appear on diplomas but will appear on transcripts, according to Assistant Dean of Harvard College Stephanie H. Kenen.Some graduate programs??which are not available as undergraduate concentrations—will also propose secondary fields for undergraduates.Seventeen concentrations aim to have secondary field proposals ready for EPC approval sometime this fall, including Astronomy, The Classics, English and American Literature and Language, Environmental Science and Public Policy, Folklore and Mythology, Government...
...grants, typically awarded to about 400 students each year. “There is more funding available this summer than ever before for students planning research abroad,” Homer wrote in the e-mail. She attributed the increases elsewhere to students’ applications to multiple programs??facilitated this year by a new common application form—rather than to a growth in the total number of students applying. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...
...online courses through Harvard Extension School (HES). The Distance Education Program (DEP), started in 1997, caters to adults who wish to continue their education. Of the 600 course offerings this year at HES, 75 are available via the Internet. Although the Distance Program does not confer degrees, two certificate programs??Environmental Management and Applied Science—can be completed online. Several DEP courses—including CSCI E-2, “Bits,” and GOVT E-1045, “Justice”—are the same classes that students...
...served to underscore the importance of quantifying the sometimes-uncertain impact that NGOs have on the developing world. The forum, called “How To Turn Economic Research into Social Action in South Asia,” aimed to encourage quantitative research on the effectiveness of socially oriented programs??especially microfinance institutions (MFIs). According to Professor of Economics Sendhil Mullainathan—one of the five panelists who spoke yesterday—NGOs and MFIs have been proliferating in South Asia in the past decade. What is lacking, Mullainathan and other panelists said, is data...