Letter from 58 Professors to Smith Addressing edX

Read the full text of a May 23 letter signed by 58 professors calling on Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith to appoint a faculty committee to draft guiding principles for interaction between FAS and HarvardX, which would then be put to a vote. The letter stated that some faculty members are “tremendously excited” about Harvard’s branch of the rapidly expanding online learning venture, while others are “deeply concerned about the program’s costs and consequences.”