Since I’ve had a very varied educational experience, one of the things that I pick up on when looking at schools is their history and how that affects their current positioning. As you may already know, I’m completing an undergraduate degree at the Harvard Extension School. The Harvard Extension School developed out of a series of lectures that eventually led to a whole program for delivering education to working men and women. Thus, HES is rooted in a process that began over 170 years ago and has grown to encompass a wide variety of disciplines in the liberal arts and sciences.

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