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For those interested in Harvard's point of view: https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2018/defending-diversity https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2018/de

• wallace_f 8y ago
  I like how Harvard sings praises of opportunity and diversity from ivory towers while literally discussing their will to hold up barriers to entry to education. There's no good reason to hold education hostage. The goal should be to create as much opportunity as possible.
  • arcturus17 8y ago
    Harvard is one of the founding partners of edX and has a ton of high-quality courses there. It also has the Harvard Extension School, which offers high-quality degrees at a fraction of the cost of the other schools. Probably unfair to say that they hold educatio hostage.
    • wallace_f 8y ago
      I know, but what I'm trying to say is that this whole discussion is misguided and ridiculous. The shame is that those "49%" of students who are, according to Harvard, fully qualified, are not given access. The whole discussion should be about how to give every qualified person--and in fact, every person: barriers to entry will always be deleterious to competitive results--access to their degree programs. But that's not how the world works. Harvard sells prestige and privilege, and profits from limiting access to it. So we end up in these ridiculous discussions about who should get access to that prestige and privilege.