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In light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers and heightened interest stemming from last year’s vigorously contested results and the possibility of a similar contest this year
Harvard Magazine is providing enhanced coverage. We asked each candidate presented by the HAA nominating committee and each member of the Harvard Forward slate seeking a place on the ballot by petition to answer these questions:
• What are the most important challenges facing the University and what are its most significant opportunities?
• What is the Board of Overseers’ role in Harvard’s response to those challenges and in its efforts to realize those opportunities?
Cambridge City Manager Louis A. DePasquale launched a task force composed of Cambridge officials and residents earlier this month to examine the future of public safety in Cambridge following a national reckoning in policing.
Cambridge City Council members E. Denise Simmons and Marc C. McGovern will chair the task force, which consists of 14 members, including activists, religious leaders, and mental health experts, per a Jan. 7 press release published by the City of Cambridge. The task force will make recommendations to members of the City Council as well as the city manager to take under consideration when determining the Cityâs budget, DePasquale said in an interview.
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The US government must do more to demand China release a Uighur man who was jailed for 15 years after participating in a state department exchange program, a coalition of Harvard University schools and student groups has said.
Ekpar Asat, a young entrepreneur from Xinjiang, disappeared in 2016 after returning from the US where he had been on the exchange program and visited his sister Rayhan, a Harvard law student. He had promised to come back to the US in a few months with their parents to watch her become Harvard’s first ever Uighur graduate.
Stem higher student dropout rate 31 Dec 2020 / 13:55 H. Teachers also find it challenging to have close contact with their students as either the students have limited access to digital devices or choose to skip online lessons.
THE closure of schools since the middle of November has raised concern, particularly among low-income families who are struggling to make ends meet. Not only do they have to meet their livelihood needs, but also have to see to the educational requirements of their children.
Even though many economic activities are allowed during the recovery movement control order period, anxieties among low-income families remain. Based on EMIR Research’s latest poll for the third quarter of this year, 80% of respondents worried about the quality of education received by their children due to the new norm of relying on online education.