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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds as though Harvard University is the one running the grift here, if one buys your assumption (which is probably incorrect) that their online programs are not legitimate.[/quote]

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DYK how many places run these programs? Columbia has one in general studies, believe same @ Penn. So many schools have them. Heck, does USDA still run an extension school? That said, they are extension programs.[/quote]

Harvard’s extension school is over 100 years old and was created for the working people in Boston who couldn’t go to college during the day.  [b]They are all taught by Harvard professors [/b]

plenty of universities have these programs. Yale has a physicians assistant Program at night separate from the school working with themYale Medical school. Online classes and on-site requirements.

Columbia has night school classes in certain degrees where students go at their own pace. Stanford,Penn, Duke, Brown, Northwestern and many many more.

What is wrong with catering to non-traditional students who might want a change in career or to get a better job but can’t spend all day at school with 18 year olds.

Universities are in the business of education.   It’s exactly what they’re doing.

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First, HES classes are not all taught by Harvard professors.

Second, the Yale PA (assistant) program is being phased out. Last class graduates in 2026. That program is different than their PA (associate) program, which will continue.

Third, classes offered at night does not automatically = extension school, e.g., Georgetown Law has a track for night students. The time of day a program is offered doesn't determine the type of program.

Fourth, Columbia's version of HES is the School of General Studies. Unlike Harvard, believe one can transfer credits from CU GS to Columbia College. A lot of Columbia's General Studies program revolves around postbac students ISO medical school admissions.

In Rufo's situation, he took graduate classes through Harvard's Extension School, not the Kennedy School of Government or Harvard's Department of Government (FAS). Those are three separate master's degree programs (the latter two also offer PhD programs) and are to be identified as such. [/quote]

I agree that Rufo was wrong purposely and misleading.

The Yale PA program is on probation.    I don’t see anything that says it’s closing. Tuition About $80,000 a year, I doubt they want to let that go.

Harvard uses its own faculty or faculty just as worthy.  It tends to focus on older students who work and wouldn’t want to be in day classes anyway.    [/quote]

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