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Harvard FAS Increases Climate-Related Courses Following 2022 Report

The Harvard Crimson 15 Apr 2024
In the 2021-2022 school year, there were more than 45 FAS courses focused on climate. According to the 2024-2025 course catalog released on my.harvard, there will be more than 50 courses focused on issues related to sustainability and climate change.
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Harvard Faculty Extend Pass-Fail Deadline, Reject Earlier Deadline for Adding Classes

The Harvard Crimson 06 Mar 2024
After it was unveiled, the proposal to move the add deadline forward drew criticism from some students, who said it was another burdensome restriction on top of the FAS’ controversial switch to previous-term course registration.
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Harvard Undergraduate Association Proposes Academic Freedom Petition to Student Body

The Harvard Crimson 28 Feb 2024
The survey asks students if they approve of the FAS plan to move the course registration deadline without instructor approval to the second Monday of the semester and how adding courses later in the semester improves their experience at Harvard.
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FAS Changes Won’t Fix Prior Term Registration

The Harvard Crimson 15 Feb 2024
While the FAS’s ... We once again implore the FAS to consider the cumulative effects their decisions have wrought on students’ quality of life and to rethink their stultifying course enrollment policies.
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Dissent: With Pass-Fail Policy, the FAS Would Make Grades Even More Meaningless

The Harvard Crimson 15 Feb 2024
Next month, the FAS will vote on a proposal to push the deadline to change the grading basis for a course to pass-fail from the fifth Monday of the semester to the 11th, or, put plainly, to ensure no ...
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The FAS’s Proposed Changes Matter. Here’s Why.

The Harvard Crimson 13 Feb 2024
The FAS plans to continue to allow students to drop a course up to the current fifth Monday deadline — but presumably, a student dropping a class on the fifth Monday will want to add a class to take its place.
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‘That’s Fine’: Students Unsure of FAS Proposal Weighing Changes to Registration, Pass-Fail Deadline

The Harvard Crimson 09 Feb 2024
The proposal, discussed at a Tuesday FAS meeting, would advance the deadline for enrolling in courses without instructor permission to the second Monday of the semester and the deadline for enrolling with permission to the third Monday.
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Harvard Faculty to Vote On Advancing Deadline to Join Courses While Delaying Pass-Fail Deadline

The Harvard Crimson 07 Feb 2024
If approved, this proposal would mark yet another major adjustment to the FAS course registration policies, which were overhauled this semester to implement a new previous-term registration system.
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FAS Research Dean Ferrell Steps Down Following Bullying Allegations

The Harvard Crimson 06 Feb 2024
Over the course of Ferrell’s tenure — which lasted less than three years — the ranks of FAS Research Administration Services dwindled from 26 staffers when she arrived to only 10 staffers as of ...
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Woke Harvard professor issues groveling apology for insulting college

The Daily Mail 13 Jan 2024
Jennifer Hochschild was slammed by her students after stating that the Harvard Extension School HES as 'not the same' as the main college ... 'On Rufo ... HES courses are Harvard U courses (often the same as in FAS, as for my courses),' Hochschild wrote ... ' ... .
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With Previous-Term Registration, Administrators Put Themselves First

The Harvard Crimson 04 Dec 2023
It seems to me that previous-term course registration was never really about helping students, but about helping FAS bureaucrats and faculty members streamline course planning without regard to how it ...
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‘Really Annoying’ or ‘Administratively Necessary’? Harvard Students Give Mixed Reviews of Previous-Term Course Registration

The Harvard Crimson 08 Nov 2023
“One of the things I really would encourage is for folks to reach out to the Committee on Course Registration, which is at the FAS Registrar’s Office, if there are ideas and thoughts about how to improve what we’re doing,” he added.Advertisement.
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Ahead of Previous-Term Course Registration Debut, Harvard Faculty and Staff Remain Divided on New System

The Harvard Crimson 30 Oct 2023
In May 2022, the FAS voted to have students register for courses during the middle of the prior term, rather than at the beginning of the semester, starting with spring 2024 courses. Course registration will open for students on Nov.
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Harvard IT Launches Pilot of AI Sandbox to Enable ‘Walled-Off’ Use of Large Language Models

The Harvard Crimson 18 Oct 2023
As generative AI has gained traction on campus and in the world, the Office of Undergraduate Education has rolled out guidance for faculty approaches regarding generative AI use in FAS courses.
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Harvard Sciences Dean Stubbs Says Generative AI is ‘Top of the List’ of Challenges

The Harvard Crimson 16 Oct 2023
The Office of Undergraduate Education released broad AI use guidelines at the start of the semester that proposed different approaches professors could take but did not impose any FAS-wide policy on AI use in courses.

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