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April 02, 2009, 04:17 PM ET
Harvard Goes Web-Only With Course Catalog, Handbooks
Harvard University plans to stop printing its course catalogs, faculty and student handbooks, and the Q Guide—which publishes the results of each year’s course evaluations—after this semester, The Harvard Crimson reports. Starting in the fall, these guides will be published exclusively on the Web.
The move will save “tens of thousands of dollars,” according to The Crimson. Officials say it is also a practical decision that the university had been considering for several years before the recession prompted general belt-tightening. The course catalog, after all, “is significantly out-of-date before the first copy rolls off the presses,” according to Barry Kane, registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
The online system will be much more dynamic, said Jay M. Harris, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, in a statement. The university has several new tools in the works, including one that will allow students to compare courses by evaluation data, and another that will give students access to analysis of the data not offered in print versions of the Q Guide. –Steve Kolowich
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