Harvard will expand its undergraduate housing capacity on and near campus to accommodate ânormal housing densityâ in fall 2021, even as it anticipates the largest matriculating class in its history, administrators wrote in an email to Faculty of Arts and Sciences affiliates Tuesday afternoon.
The administrators â University President Lawrence A. Bacow, FAS Dean Claudine Gay, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Emma Dench â also shared that all graduate and undergraduate instruction will take place in the classroom, with the option of online supplemental instruction.
Gay first shared in a March interview with The Crimson that the University was âcharting a path to a full return for our students, our faculty, and staff.â Weeks later, the College announced a planned return to âin-person learningâ in the fall semester.
Professional basketball player Jeremy Lin â10 will address the Collegeâs Class of 2021 at this yearâs virtual Class Day on May 26, the University announced Monday.
Harvard announced in February it would postpone Commencement Exercises and hold a virtual ceremony in May for the second consecutive year in adherence to public health guidelines. University President Lawrence S. Bacow promised to hold an in-person celebration for members of the Class of 2021 and Class of 2020 once it is safe to do so.
Lin is known for being the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA and the first Asian American to win an NBA championship. As a student at the College, where he studied Economics, Lin played point guard on the menâs basketball team and captained the team during his senior year. He made the All-Ivy League team three times.
Carine M. Hajjar â21, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Government concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays.
Harvard University, one of the foremost academic institutions in the world, where only 3 percent of the faculty is conservative.
If academia is the collaborative pursuit of truth that relies on a diverse set of views, then ideological homogeneity of any kind is poison for a healthy academic community â not to mention detrimental to free speech.
Itâs not shocking that I, a right-of-center student on campus, would be worried about freedom of speech given that I am in the ideological minority. Yet, embedded in my conservative leanings is the belief that private institutions, like Harvard, can technically do whatever they want. While I think this dire ideological imbalance among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is detrimental to the quality of education, I will not protest if Harvard, as a private entity, wants it to stay this way. H
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations awarded actress, director, and producer Taraji P. Henson its Artist of the Year award at its annual Cultural Rhythms event earlier this month.
The ceremony, which took place on April 1, concluded the 35th installment of Cultural Rhythms, an event the Foundation holds annually to showcase and celebrate cultural and ethnic diversity at the College. The show features student performances and a celebration of the Artist of the Year. Past honorees include Shakira and Denzel H. Washington.
During the ceremony, Director of the College’s Office of Diversity Education and Support Robin M. Johnson said the foundation honored Henson for her contributions to both the entertainment industry and public conversations around race and mental health.