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BACOW: All of us hope that by fall we will have returned to some semblance of normality but we’re also planning for contingencies. If this virus has taught us anything, it is that we need to be flexible, and adaptable.
GAZETTE: Along those same lines, the pandemic has fundamentally changed the nature of work for so many. Do you have a sense of what work will look like at Harvard going forward?
BACOW: I think we’ve learned that people can work far more effectively from remote locations than we ever might have imagined. I have not set foot in Mass Hall since March 13, except for five minutes to reclaim a notebook that I left there shortly after I departed. If you had told me that I could do my job from my study here at Elmwood for a year without seeing the deans and VPs, the faculty, students, staff, alumni, donors, or the governing boards in person, I would have said, “No way.” But now we’ve all learne
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College Guy: How your name is sold to colleges for marketing
Brennan Barnard
Published: 3/15/2021 5:05:26 PM
Question: I have been getting emails and snail mail from NYU, The University of Chicago and other selective colleges. Is this a good sign?
Answer: It is definitely a sign. However, in truth, it is neither good nor bad. You might then wonder what it is a sign of? It means you are likely a junior in high school and have either taken standardized testing or filled out some kind of national survey. It is also a sign that the “admission industrial complex” and college marketing machines are alive and well.
By Kimberly Winston
Closed campuses, canceled seminars, delayed guest lectures, and postponed special events the pandemic has scuttled higher education plans by the thousands. But sometimes, those cast-off plans have led to new, even stronger strategies and dramatic new beginnings.
That’s the case with the Divinity School’s Center for Continuing Education, which was a toddling six months old when the coronavirus caused international shutdowns in March 2020.
The new Center’s main goal was to reach beyond the walls of the school and into the New Haven-area community with offerings of on-campus lectures, courses of study, and singular events all for free and mostly in person.