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Starting This Spring, Google to Limit Storage on Higher Education Accounts
Harvard University Information Technology will begin enforcing a default storage limit of 25 gigabytes on Google accounts starting this spring, according to a statement released by Faculty of Arts and Sciences administrators last week.
Expecting Student Safety Concerns, Faculty Say Remote Classes Largely Unaffected by Political Issues Abroad
Despite concerns that remote classes could force homebound students to learn material that is politically sensitive in their home countries, ten Harvard faculty who teach such courses said this week that those issues largely did not materialize.
Harvard Debuts New Web Tool for Faculty and Staff
Harvard launched an online platform this semester to give faculty and staff tailor-made web pages with articles, events, and other information from University sources based on their academic interests.
Once Again, Faculty To Debate Social Life Sanctions
One year after Faculty discussion formally began on Harvard’s historic penalties on final clubs and Greek organizations, two critical developments may change the nature of the debate at Tuesday’s meeting of the full Faculty.
Economics Doctoral Students Received Confidential Information About Admitted Peers
A spreadsheet containing personal information and confidential evaluation data about admitted Economics doctoral students was mistakenly sent to current graduate students in the department.
Four Graduate Schools Join my.harvard Student Portal
Four graduate schools joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Divinity School on my.harvard, the University’s online student information system, this fall.
Vampires Come Alive at Humanities Conference
Students and scholars across several departments gathered around a “vampirian round table” on Friday to discuss the importance of supernatural elements in media and literature in understanding society’s age-old thirst for tales of the undead.
UC Website Down After Summer Cyber Attack
According to the Undergraduate Council's technology chair, the UC's official website was one of the servers affected by a cyber attack this summer.
Harvard Can't Fully Prevent Future Cyber Attacks, Experts Say
According to experts in cyber security, there may be nothing that Harvard and institutions like it can do to fully protect themselves from future attacks from hackers.
Harvard Investigates IT Security Breach
The security breach to Faculty of Arts and Sciences and central administration information technology networks may have compromised email login information.
Widespread Campus Internet Outages Resolved
HUIT issued an alert on its website about the outages, which it said began at 10:30 a.m., at around 11 a.m. Friday.
Student Billing System To Roll Out in November
The creation of this student system is one of the first steps of a larger effort to centralize existing web systems and make it easier to pay bills, submit study cards, and register online.
Administrators Approve Creation of Centralized Student Information System
The system will allow students from across 12 Harvard schools to complete tasks ranging from submitting study cards to handling billing payments, all on one online platform.
Senior Resident Dean Critiques Administrators' Actions
Senior Resident Dean Sharon L. Howell became the first of Harvard’s resident deans to publicly challenge the way that administrators handled their covert search of resident deans’ email accounts last fall and the fallout since the search came to light on Saturday.
Students Uncertain of Privacy Policy, Some Fear Searches
In the wake of Saturday’s report that administrators secretly searched resident deans’ email accounts, it remains unclear whether University policy permits Harvard officials to conduct covert searches of student email accounts.
Administrators Secretly Searched Resident Deans' Email for Cheating Scandal Leak
Harvard administrators secretly accessed the email accounts of 16 resident deans in an attempt to determine who leaked communication regarding the Government 1310 cheating scandal that made its way to the media, the Boston Globe reported on Saturday evening.
Harvard Refused Heymann's Monitoring Proposal
Days after internet activist Aaron Swartz's Jan. 11 suicide, The Huffington Post reports that during the 1990s, Swartz's prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann—who was, even then, a pioneer in policing the internet—tried to get Harvard's cooperation in monitoring the University's network usage without a court order. Heymann proposed that the University put an "electronic banner on its intranet telling users they were being monitored" and implying their consent. Harvard refused, HuffPo reports, citing "the privacy of its users."
Free Starbucks Gift Cards in the Science Center NOW!
HUIT is conducting a focus group in the Science Center and giving away Starbucks Gift Cards worth five dollars to all participants. Get there before they run out!
HUIT Considers Student Input for Web Makeover
Starting Wednesday, students will be able to submit designs for the new face of my.harvard.edu to the Harvard Student Information Technology Advisory Committee.
HUIT To Improve WiFi Coverage on Campus
In an effort to improve wireless internet access in some of the campus’ weakest hot spots, Harvard University Information Technology will install a new wireless core and 4,000 wireless access points by September.
FAS Develops New Online Registration Portal
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar’s office has made headway on the development of a new online registration portal ...
Harvard's Website Hacked by 'Syrian Electronic Army'
Harvard University’s home page was hacked Monday morning by a group calling themselves the “Syrian Electronic Army.”
98 Percent of Students Switch to Gmail
In the three weeks since Google began hosting @college webmail accounts, 98 percent of the 5,610 students using @college email addresses made the switch.
Email Misdirected in Switch to Gmail
During the transfer of Harvard @college email accounts to new Google hosted accounts, a handful of students received emails from individuals who share their surname, raising privacy concerns for some who chose to switch email systems.
Harvard College To Switch Email Provider To Gmail
By the middle of August, Gmail will replace the webmail client currently designated for most undergraduate email accounts but used by a fraction of those students.
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