Administrators across Harvard reflected on how experiences from the pandemic-afflicted academic year would affect education in the years ahead in a Graduate School of Education webinar Friday.
The latest installment in the school’s webinar series Education Now, the event featured GSE Dean Bridget Terry Long and Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bharat N. Anand ’88, a Harvard Business School professor. The discussion was hosted by the University Vice Provost for International Affairs Mark C. Elliot and moderated by Graduate School of Education lecturer Matthew L. Miller.
Though cognizant of the difficulties brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, Anand said he sees several “clear advantages” to remote learning, with the first being the “collapsing” of time and space.
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Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) announced today that it will continue to provide a wide range of research opportunities and programming through its Tunisia Office for a further six years, supported by a $2 million gift from Harvard alumnus Hazem Ben-Gacem ’92. The office, which opened its doors in Tunis in January 2017 with the support of an initial gift from Ben-Gacem (https://bit.ly/2YkSZ1g), provides students and scholars with a bridge to renowned Tunisian archival facilities, serves as an incubator for analysis of the evolving social, cultural, legal, and political movements in the region, and offers an intellectual hub for scholars of, and from, Tunisia, the Maghreb, the Mediterranean, and the wider Middle East region.