Harvard U. Committee Will Review Whether Taking Courses on Campus Is Essential By JEFFREY R. YOUNG Chronicle of Higher Education A new Harvard University committee will reconsider a long-standing policy that requires both undergraduate and graduate students to spend at least a full academic year taking classes on campus to get a Harvard degree. If the rule is changed, it could pave the way for degree programs at the university in which students take some or all of their classes online, rather than in classrooms. FULL TEXT AT: http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002030501u.htm jon porter
The idea of Harvard moving more fully into the non-resident learning realm poses some very exciting benefits. Beyond the mere availability of Harvard degrees to non-resident students, Harvard's embrace of distance-based degree programs would serve to bolster the credibility of distance learning in the US. Personally, I have no interest in pursuing a Harvard degree at a distance. However, if we could just convince Princeton... Cory Seibel