Harvard Extension School Students Rally for Degree Name Change

[freeloader]

I understand for personal “branding” purposes why people would much rather have an B/MLA in their chosen discipline than an B/MLA in Extension studies in their discipline. That verbiage is part of why I haven’t considered HES. To me though, the Liberal Arts part of the degree title is actually more problematic, or perhaps illogical. So many of the degrees, particularly the master’s degrees, have nothing to do with the liberal arts. The management and finance degrees have, perhaps, one course each (in economics) which is a liberal arts course/discipline.

To me, the much more relevant change would be to label these degrees a Bachelor or Masters in Extension Studies with a focus/major/concentration in XYZ.