Scrutiny
Are Athletics Overshadowing The Academy?
Since the formation of the Ivy League 59 years ago, the Ancient Eight have consistently struggled to balance athletic success and its impact on academics. These critics raise a question: Has Harvard overstepped the line?
Same Story, New Book: Repackaging Humanities at Harvard
Recently, national news outlets have declared a crisis of the humanities. But at Harvard, the plot gets more complicated. The challenges facing Harvard's humanities necessitate changes to course offerings far more than the core of the humanistic enterprise.
Scrutiny: Same Story, New Book
Same Story, New Book: Repackaging Humanities at Harvard. By Julia F.P. Ostmann and David P. Freed.
Scrutiny: Gen Eds
CS50 is one of the most popular classes at Harvard, and also satisfies the Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning Gen Ed requirement.
General Education and the Future of Liberal Arts
With the Gen Ed program up for its first five-year review, longstanding questions about the role of a college education in changing times and beyond campus remain contested.
Scrutiny: Gen Eds
Organismic and evolutionary biology lecturer Andrew Berry, who regularly teaches two Gen Ed classes, praises the program for its potential to bridge disciplines.
Scrutiny: Gen Eds
Societies of the World is just one of the eight Gen Ed requirements that every Harvard student has to fulfill.
Interactive Feature: Harvard University’s Cyberwar
While governments and corporations alike experience cyberthreats, universities like Harvard face a unique test: how to balance an academic mission demanding an unfettered flow of information with the need to protect valuable data and computer systems.
The Best Team You've Never Gone to Watch
Currently, five players on the Olympics-headed national women's ice hockey team are either current or former members of the Harvard team. The Harvard women’s hockey team is one of the most successful teams on campus but struggles to maintain fan attendance levels.