Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana said in a Monday interview he has âa great deal of confidenceâ that upperclassmen invited to return to campus for the spring semester will adhere to Covid-19 residential rules.
Harvardâs housing plan for the spring semester â which welcomes roughly half of all undergraduates to fill 3,100 beds on campus â prioritizes seniors and currently enrolled juniors, rather than freshmen as it did in the fall.
Students living on campus during the fall semester were required to sign a community compact assuring their compliance with social distancing and other safety guidelines, a requirement which will continue this spring. The College also developed a Community Council â composed of student volunteers, faculty, and staff members â to enforce the compact.
Harvardâs Undergraduate Council launched a weeklong campaign last month to support a project aimed at explaining how the University collects and uses student data.
The campaign â dubbed the Transparency Project â started as a final project created by Yousuf Bakshi â23 and Anjali Chakradhar â23 in the class Computer Science 105: âPrivacy and Technology,â taught by Computer Science professor James âJimâ H. Waldo. Bakshi and Chakradhar are Council members who represent Mather House and Cabot House, respectively.
The project â a collaboration with newly formed club Harvard Undergraduate Initiative for Technology and Society â aimed to bolster student awareness about data privacy, Chakradhar said.
âWe want to help build the next generation of data-aware citizens who can then go on to advocate for themselves and other people,â Chakradhar said. âWe thought that the best place to start was right here.â