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Harvard Extension School Students Rally for Degree Name Change
#11
Extension Studies is a stupid and unnecessary designation. If "Harvard Extension School" is on the transcript and diploma, there's no need to give the degrees weird names. But, these students knew what the degree name was going to be, but they attended anyway thinking that having Harvard on their resumes would make them more competitive.
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I think it is stupid and unnecessary. Harvard literally advertises "get a degree from Harvard" and hides the extension school part in their media campaigns. They know what they're doing. Now, that its gaining traction, they don't want to "water down" their overpriced in person degrees.
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(10-07-2022, 01:01 PM)rachel83az Wrote: IIRC, this has been discussed before on the sister forum (or a similar topic, at least). From what was said there, HES students attend much of the exact same courses as the "real" Harvard students. They're mixed together in the same class and you won't know who is studying at which Harvard college. So, yes, it is a "real" Harvard degree. If they want to say on the diploma that it's a degree from HES and not Harvard, fine. I understand that. But it's the same Harvard, it's just not "exclusive", so calling all the degrees "extension studies" is just silly.

Of course, going to school for a degree in Extension Studies is possibly just as silly. The students knew what they were signing up for. If they're facing discrimination, possibly no degree would've helped with their careers.

They're not paying Harvard tuition though. HES is discounted. The students need to learn to research before enrolling in any college program. That's on them.
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(10-07-2022, 08:02 AM)smartdegree Wrote: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/...gree-name/

They probably need more than 20 people rallying to get this done LOL.
Yeah its tough, even if every HES dean, directors, profs and anyone there agrees, they still have to convince greater Harvard community. Maybe only multi multi millions donations from HES alums will do the job
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lol Harvard's acceptance rate is under 5% ...

Harvard Extension's acceptance rate is 100%

No kidding
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Harvard knows how to profit from this, they know they've got students wanting in on the Harvard name and having the Extension School is to get those who can't get in the front door, an option to have Harvard on their plate with the extension school. Even if they do remove "extension studies" from the degree name, the transcripts already have "extension school" on the headers and such, it won't really matter for them, but they're keeping to their traditional routes and not budging...
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(10-07-2022, 05:47 PM)nomaduser Wrote: lol Harvard's acceptance rate is under 5% ...

Harvard Extension's acceptance rate is 100%

No kidding

False, HES is open enrollment, similar to a community college, so anyone can sign up for classes, but admissions to a degree program is based on your performance in the courses you take there. The call it "Earn your way in" admissions.

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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.
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Actually, Harvard could rename the 'Extension School' to 'Executive School.'
Hurrah, problems have gone, and they can charge triple the price even.
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(10-08-2022, 04:45 AM)datby98 Wrote: Actually, Harvard could rename the 'Extension School' to 'Executive School.'
Hurrah, problems have gone, and they can charge triple the price even.

That would really anger the Harvard alumni base since that would sound more prestigious.
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