The university’s horrific incompetence and lack of consideration for its rapid eviction of students is symptomatic of an institutional problem: Harvard is not treating its students with the full humanity each one of us deserves.
Grade inflation may placate students and faculty, but it is not an honest reflection of student performance, and the secrecy surrounding Harvard’s grading process only perpetuates the issue.
Like most Harvard students, I receive an email blast every morning from the Harvard Gazette, the university’s official news source and mouthpiece. I don’t...
Persistence and grit define first-generation, low-income students, even as we hide behind a facade of easy success. Harvard is incredibly diverse, both in privilege and lived experience, and we deserve an institution that is more responsive to our concerns and the unique challenges we face.
Though they are in competition with each other for student and public support, Harvard student campaign subgroups are united in their collective goal of encouraging and deepening youth civic engagement.
Harvard has deliberately kept its students and the greater university community in the dark by obscuring the processes behind its investment and shareholder decision-making — obscuring, even, how the members of the committees that make such decisions are selected. Without any meaningful answers from the administration, these practices suggest a concerted effort to evade public accountability.
As the generation of individuals inspired into service by Kennedy retires, a new wave of public servants must take up the mantle with innovative ideas that impact their communities.
