Faculty and Staff

Introduction	Due Dates
Copyright Permission	Course Packets
Classroom Handouts	Online Course Materials
Harvard COOP Textbooks	Library Reserves
Syllabus Archive	Copyrighting your own Materials
Memo for Semester	The Syllabus
Posting a Syllabus Online	Class Pages

Introduction

What is the Course Materials Office? The Course Materials Office, or CMO, is a service provided by the Harvard Kennedy School for the distribution of course materials to students either directly in the form of course packets or indirectly through classroom handouts. Packets are customized anthologies of xerographically reproduced reading selections prepared by your instructors.

Some course materials are distributed directly to you in the classroom and are referred to as "classroom handouts." Classroom handouts are not distributed by the CMO. If you miss a class and did not receive a handout, or misplace your handout, you should speak with the instructor's staff assistant on how to obtain a copy. Please note that you are term billed for classroom handouts. For additional information, please see “Classroom Handouts” further below.

Hard cover and paperback textbooks are available at the Harvard Coop Bookstore located in Harvard Square. Student in courses jointly listed with the FAS may want to use UC Books to search the internet for books for those courses.

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Due Dates

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/degree-programs/teaching/course-planning-calendar-2008-2009.pdf

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COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS

WARNING: Harvard is serious about complying with the US copyright laws. The Course Materials Office will not photocopy copyrighted materials without explicit written permission from the copyright owner.

The Copyright Service Center (CSC)

Speeding up the permissions process

Copyrighting your own materials

HKS Library copyright information

Harvard University policy statement

The Copyright Service Center (CSC). This branch of the Course Materials Office (CMO) handles the permissions end of the CMO's operations. To protect both the faculty and the school, the CMO will not produce copies of copyrighted course materials until it has received written permission from the copyright holder. Permissions seeking is, however, a complex and time-consuming process; even if the instructor has used the material before, a new permission is required for each semester (and each course) in which an item is used. Please note that the CMO does not process copyright approvals or packets for courses that do not carry an HKS course number. Faculty teaching at other Harvard departments or at the Extension School must arrange for copyright permissions and course packet production through those departments.

Copyright permissions for course packets. The process begins when an item is added to the instructor's “shopping cart” in Request 3.0, as described in Course Packets. The Copyright Office then contacts the publisher for permission to copy, receives a response, and pays the copyright fee if there is one. If permission is denied, the Copyright Office informs the faculty member so the item can be removed from the packet.

Copyright permissions for class handouts. Bear in mind that the CMO cannot copy classroom handouts unless they are received by noon the previous day. If the CMO does copy handouts, these materials are subject to the same rules as for packets: no multiple photocopying of copyright protected material without express written permission from the copyright holder. This rule holds regardless of whether the CMO, the faculty member, or any other person is making the copies. The Staff Assistant enters the information in Request 3.0, the Copyright Office requests permission to copy, and so on. In practice, many of the items an instructor would like to use as a class handout (for example, hot off the press newpaper articles) are current material. In such a case the item may not be copied, but it may be possible to use it for class discussion by directing students to the URL. See Online Course Materials for information on using the Class Pages for this purpose.

Copyright permissions for Class Pages and PDFs. You may not post copyright protected materials on your Class Page without explicit permission from the copyright owner. The standard CMO letters to publishers request permission to xerographically reproduce their materials. To request permission to post pdfs of those readings (an entirely different form of distribution), the CMO must send a separate letter specifically requesting permission to post.

Posting these materials on the Class Page in most instances incurs additional copyright fees. For some pdfs the fees may be higher than those for xerographic distribution. (Publishers try to recover the cost of those "electronic horses" that escape from the "electronic corral" into the internet by charging those who comply with the laws more.) The CMO is required to recover course materials costs; hence all students enrolled in the course would be billed to recover these copyright fees.

Speeding up the permissions process. If your course is using substantially the same materials as the previous year you can take advantage of the Course History feature in Request 3.0, which will expedite the copyright permissions process for the current semester. For further information about the Course History feature, contact the Manager of the CMO.

Harvard University policy statement

All Harvard users must respect the copyrights in works that are accessible through computers connected to the Harvard network. Under federal copyright law, no copyrighted work may be copied, published, disseminated, displayed, performed or played without permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the fair use or licensed agreement.

This includes music, movies and other copyrighted material. Harvard may terminate the network access of users who are found to have repeatedly infringed the copyrights of others... (Harvard General Counsel's Office, 11/22/00 email)

The General Counsel's Office comments as follows on "fair use":

...Multiple photocopying without permission is risky. Courts have generally been unsympathetic to claims that it is "fair use," and the publishing industry actively monitors university communities to detect photocopy abuse. Both the individual and the institution are at risk, as are those in positions of responsibility when excessive photocopying takes place...

...Similar concerns apply to posting materials on a web page. There is no blanket "fair use" exemption for this.

For further information on copyright permissions, contact Bob Coner, Copyright Officer at 495-5078.

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COURSE PACKETS

Packet Production in a Nutshell

• Instructor creates syllabus.

• Staff assistant enters into Request 3.0 info on syllabus for course readings needed.

• CMO reviews items in Request 3.0, contacts publishers asking permission to reproduce.

• Publisher grants permission to reproduce.

• Staff assistant creates packet electronically and sends to CMO

(the CMO does not create the packet).

• CMO checks for compliance and format, and sends electronically to copy vendor.

• Vendor returns hard copy to CMO.

• Student purchases from CMO.

Packet Contents. A course packet is a customized anthology of xerographically reproduced readings that is accompanied by a cover sheet and table of contents. It may also include cases, study questions, problem sets, and other documents requested by the instructor, plus one other absolutely essential feature, the publishers’ permissions to reproduce the material. The Course Materials Office will not include copyrighted material in a course packet until permission to copy has been granted by the publisher.

Preparation of course materials. Prior to the start of each term, all staff assistants receive a detailed memo from Michael McLaughlin, Manager of the Course Materials Office (CMO), on how to prepare course packets and other course materials. Packet preparation is the responsibility of the faculty assistants. CAs and TFs are rarely involved in packet preparation. (For CA and TF duties, see Managing CAs and TFs.) Because of the lead time required for assembling the packets, copyright permissions, and actual reproduction, the work on the packets usually begins six weeks before the start of the term.

Request 3.0 is an online system for creating, editing, ordering, and tracking the status of packets and handouts. Staff assistants can quickly and easily search for items used in previous semesters and preview them online, or submit new items to the database. All new items are scanned by the CMO into the Request 3.0 electronic archive. Staff assistants can work on packets and handouts over multiple sessions without losing data, easily switch from working on one packet to another, or from one course to another, and easily move items in and out of a packet as the faculty member revises and alters the course. The system is web accessible from any internet-enabled computer 24 hours a day. It uses the familiar shopping cart metaphor for assembling packets. There is one shopping cart for each course that a staff member works on. The staff member simply shops for items, drops them into the cart, assigns the items to packets or handouts, and sequences them as the faculty member wishes. Adding items to the shopping cart initiates the copyright clearance process. The staff member can then submit the packet or handout via the internet for production by the CMO.

After the packet is electronically submitted, the Copyright Service Center (CSC) will check it for copyright compliance and approve the order for the packet copies. (See Copyright Permissions for details.) If errors are found in the packet, if some of the material is denied a copyright permission, or if some of it may be denied a permission, the instructor is notified by email and the packet returned to the shopping cart. The rescheduling of production of such packets is based on when they are resubmitted, not on when the packet was originally received.

Access Rights to Request 3.0. Staff and faculty who need access to Request 3.0 must contact the Course Materials Office.

How many course packets should be ordered? Use the previous year's enrollment count plus expected shoppers. As a backup, the CMO provides the HKS library with extra reserve copies of the course packets. If it's a new course, the Manager of the CMO can help. His experience and what he hears from students at the CMO sales window enable him tooffer a well educated guess at the appropriate number of copies. You may also consult the Assistant Dean for Teaching Support.

Deadlines for submitting course packets to the CMO. These deadlines will ensure that students receive their course materials in time to read through them before the first class:

	Copyright Deadline	Submission of Packet Deadlines
Semester		Packet #1	Packet #2
Fall or Spring	5 weeks before the start of classes	3 weeks before the start of classes	3 weeks before the start of classes

Late materials will be processed in the order in which they are received. If your materials are late, DO NOT assume that the CMO will be able to turn out a rush order for you.

How long does it take the CMO to process a packet? During the first several weeks of the semester, the CMO typically needs a full week (5 business days) to process packets and have them ready to go when the students need them. They are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. As the semester progresses and volume diminishes, the turnaround time drops slightly as long as there are no problems with copyright permissions in the packet.

Who pays for the packets? Students are charged on their term bills for packets they have purchased. Mindful of students’ budgets, the CMO endeavors to provide options to reduce student costs wherever possible. Two copies of all packets are placed on reserve in the Library. In addition, faculty can take several steps to reduce the cost of packets in their course:

• Keep in mind the amount of reading students are doing in their other three to five classes each semester. If a student is taking five classes and has to read 150 pages a week for each in addition to doing other homework, chances are that all the reading simply won’t get done. Students resent having to purchase materials they don’t have time to read.

• Create separate packets for required reading and optional reading. Include in the “required” reading packet only those items that are essential and will actually be discussed in class. Those readings that are not required, will not be discussed in class, or that are only recommended (not required) should be placed in a separate “optional” packet.

• Check to see which of the items are already available on line; provide the URLs so students can access these materials directly. Then the faculty assistant prepares the packet in two forms. One version includes all materials whether available on line or not. The second version includes only those materials that are not available on line plus a list of the relevant URLs. This allows students the option of saving money by using the URLs where possible.

• Put together a smaller packet that includes only the materials for the first and second weeks of classes. Subsequently you can put together the remaining materials in one packet or several. This enables students to participate in a course while they may still be shopping.

• To see packet costs from previous years, go to CMO. and click on Cost of Course Materials.

Packets on Reserve at the Library. The CMO usually sends two copies of all packets to the HKS Library. In addition, the Library maintains reserve copies of all other required course materials, including books, videos, and audiotapes. In order to ensure that the material is available to students when needed, the library must receive lists of required course reading at least a month before classes begin. (See Due Dates for Course Materials. For details, see Library Services.)

NB. The CMO does not process copyright approvals or packets for courses that do not carry a HKS course number. Faculty teaching at other Harvard departments or at the Extension School must arrange for copyright permissions and course packet production through those departments.

For further information please contact the Manager of the CMO (michael_mclaughlin@harvard.edu) or see CMO.

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CLASSROOM HANDOUTS

Classroom handouts that are produced by the CMO and distributed in the classroom by the instructor are not available for student pickup at the CMO. Instructors should anticipate that some of the students will have missed class and other will have lost their copies of the handout, and have their staff assistants prepare accordingly.

Costs and billing. The CMO covers the reproduction costs of classroom handouts that are brought to the CMO prior to noon for next day (or later) delivery. It then recovers the costs of the handouts for a course through term billing each student enrolled in the course at the end of the semester. Instructors are encouraged to distribute problem sets, syllabus revisions, assignments, lecture notes and similar "instructor's materials" (which do not require copyright permissions) via the online class web pages (set up by the IT department) or email. Feedback from students suggests that nonessential handouts are not always popular with the students (who have to pay for them).

The CMO does not cover the reproduction cost of handouts for same day service, or for handouts brought to the CMO after 12 noon for next day service. In such cases, instructors must make their own arrangements for copying. Students will not be charged; the instructor's Faculty Support Account absorbs the expense. The CMO will, however, process copyright permissions through Request 3.0, and cover the cost of copyright fees for all handouts, even those that do not meet the CMO production deadline.

If you intend to distribute classroom handouts or to purchase materials from outside vendors for distribution in your class (e.g., as in the Program on Negotiation exercises), please include that information on your syllabus. If you distributed such materials the last time you taught the class, please provide an estimate on your syllabus of what the charges may be per student. The CMO web site has this information at CMO Handout Info.

Copyright permissions. The CMO will not photocopy copyrighted materials without explicit written permission from the copyright owner. This rule holds regardless of whether the CMO, the faculty member, or any other person is making the copies. The Staff Assistant enters the information in Request 3.0, the Copyright Service Center requests permission to copy, and so on. If the handout is, for example, a hot off the press newspaper article, the faculty member is advised to give the students the URL for that particular source. See Online Course Materials for information on using the Class Pages for this purpose. When in doubt contact the Manager of the CMO.

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ONLINE COURSE MATERIALS

Text files

Data sets

URLs and Find It at Harvard

Three Pathways to Posting.

1. The item already exists on the internet. Faculty assistant pastes the URL into the online syllabus. Student clicks and goes to the item directly

2. The item exists in a HOLLIS license resource. Faculty assistant pastes link into the online syllabus. Student clicks on the link and goes to the HOLLIS resource.

3. The item does not exist on the Internet or in a HOLLIS resource. The faculty wants to post a scanned copy of the article as a PDF. Faculty assistant enters the reading in Request as a new item and sends CMO the item in hard copy along with the new item form. CMO requests permission from publisher to post a pdf of item. When the publisher grants permission CMO sends staff PDF for posting on the HKS Class Page.

Text files. You may not post copyright protected materials on your class page without explicit permission from the copyright owner. See Copyright Permissions and click on Copyright permissions for class pages.

Data sets for courses. Data sets for a course may be posted on a the course's intranet password-protected class page. For assistance with posting, contact Mark Bourne (mark_bourne@harvard.edu)). Stata software and manuals for both Windows and Macintosh are available at the CMO. For more information, come to the CMO or call 617-495-1372.

URLs. More and more journals (and more and more of their back issues) are being made available through the University library system. Thanks to Find It at Harvard, the university's new citation linker tool, it has become much easier to locate journal articles and other publications. Simply type in the name of the journal you want to search as well as other basic bibliographic information; Find It at Harvard identifies the databases that contain the article. To learn more about this valuable resource, see Find It at Harvard.

Including URLs in the syllabus and linking to electronic materials for courses. If you include the URL for an online item in your syllabus, students accessing the syllabus on line can go directly to the relevant item. Directing students to the URL for materials on line ultimately saves them money; the HKS does not incur copyright fees for items accessed in this way. In contrast, posting such an item on the class page requires copyright permission from the owner and may incur a copyright fee. For further information go to the page on Library Reserves, and cursor down to "Linking Electronic Materials.

"Paper Copy of Online Readings" and Posting HKS Cases to Course Webpage. Consult the following guides if you wish to (a) create a printed CMO packet of materials that are also available online or (b) post a HKS case on a course webpage:

Memo on "Paper Copy of Online Readings" Packets

Requesting HKS Cases to Post on Course Webpage

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TEXTBOOK ORDERS

Books are ordered directly by the instructor (or staff assistant) from the Harvard Cooperative Society Textbook Department (the Coop). Deadlines for textbook orders are set by the Coop, which requests that orders be submitted at least three months before the start of a semester. Students purchase the books directly from the Coop.

The Coop is located at 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138.
Phone: (617) 499-2223. FAX 617-499-2178.

The order may be submitted electronically at The Coop; select “Textbook Adoptions” on the main page. Alternatively, you may pick up a book order from the Assistant Dean for Teaching Support in L-229.

Textbook Orders for CAs and TFs
Some publishers will provide free copies of a required textbook for CAs and TFs as well as instructors. The instructor must negotiate directly with the publisher to work out these arrangements; be sure to allow sufficient time for a response. Instructors who are unable to get complimentary desk copies of the textbook for their CAs and TFs must purchase them directly and charge them to their Faculty Support Accounts. In either case, instructors should ask CAs and TFs who have been given copies of the text to return them at the end of the semester.

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LIBRARY RESERVES

(books, course packets, videos, DVDs, audiotapes)

The HKS Library maintains on reserve copies of all required course materials including books, videos, audiotapes, and course packets. The number of copies is determined by the estimated enrollment in the class. To make sure that the material is available to students when needed, faculty should submit their lists of required reading to the Course Reserves Coordinator at least a month before classes begin. (Send via the online form at http://www.HKS.harvard.edu/library/secure/reserves/). The lists should include the following information for books that you wish placed on reserve: author, title, publisher, date. For journal articles that you wish placed on reserve, include author and title of article, journal title, volume, date, pages. Reserve material is listed in the Reserves section of the HOLLIS catalog, which can be searched by title, course number, and instructor’s name.

NB: (1) Syllabi will not be accepted as reading lists.

(2) Material that will be included in the CMO packets should not appear on the reserve lists sent to the library. The CMO supplies the Library with the copies of your course packets.

Books that are not in the library's collection. The Library will order books that are not in its collection for required readings only. For every thirty students in a class, the library will purchase one copy of a new title. If any single item (book, video, CD ROM) costs $175 or more, approval must be gotten from the Academic Dean. In addition, the Academic Dean must approve any request for eight or more new, individual items for a single course. (This refers to unique titles, not copies.)

Photocopies of journal articles. The library will provide one photocopy of journal articles. If you need more than one copy, we ask that you supply us with legally obtained additional copies.

Timing. Reserve lists will be processed in the order in which they are received. Please note that in addition to the time needed to process materials for reserve, it can take as long as several weeks for a newly ordered book to arrive, so please try to get your lists in as soon as possible.

Linking to Electronic Materials for Courses. Many course materials, such as government publications and papers from non-profit organizations can be found on the Web. In addition, a growing number of periodical articles are available from collections of electronic resources that Harvard licenses. Using tools provided by the library, in many cases it is possible to make direct links to these articles from your course pages. Since the library system provides authentication, these links can be used freely with no other security or permission procedures necessary. (Please note, however, that posting the article itself on a Web site without permission would still violate the copyright law). For details, consult the document: Making Links on Class Pages to Online Journal Articles.

To find out if an article is available on line, you can use Find It At Harvard, the University's convenient linking tool. You can find it on the library's home page under the heading "Citation Linker." For a more thorough search, check the HOLLIS catalog to see if the journal is included in Harvard’s collection of networked resources. As a matter of fact, you may need to look in both places because neither is completely comprehensive, but look first in Find It at Harvard.

Please note: for technical reasons it is not possible to make links to specific newspaper articles. Neither LEXIS/NEXUS nor Factiva, two major sources of full-text news articles on line, provide stable URL's for individual articles. In some cases articles are available from resources such as ProQuest or ABI/Inform that do support stable URL's. Be sure to check the Citation Linker to find all possible sources of newspaper articles on line.

Additional information:

Information for HKS Staff

Information for HKS Faculty

HKS Library Home Page

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Copyrighting Your Own Materials

Faculty members occasionally wish to copyright their own materials. For University-related materials, they should consult the Office of the General Counsel. For personal needs (e.g., advice on publishing a book), the Copyright Service Center recommends that they consult an attorney who specializes in intellectual property rights. Here is what the OGC has to say about these situations:

The Office of the General Counsel represents the University, including individual Harvard officials acting in their official capacities. The Office does not represent individual faculty, staff members, or administrators in personal legal matters outside the scope of their business as University officials.

From time to time, members of the University community need personal legal advice or representation. The Office of the General Counsel is familiar with the legal resources available in the Boston area and is pleased to provide general information about how members of the community may obtain legal assistance. Except to identify outside attorneys who may be available to provide such services, the University plays no role in the engagement. The individual must make his or her own arrangements, including fee arrangements, with the outside attorney.

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THE SYLLABUS

Syllabus Archives

Posting a Syllabus on the Net

Syllabus due dates: Fall courses, including those in module period 2: August 3
Spring courses, including those in module period 4: December 3

Core information to be included. While syllabi may vary greatly in form, they usually include the following specific items:

HKS course number, course title, and instructor; must be clearly displayed at the top
Instructor's contact information (office location, phone, fax, email)
Instructor's staff assistant (name and contact information)
Overview of the goals of the course
Audience for which the course is intended
Requirements students are expected to meet (class attendance and participation, readings, papers and/or problem sets, group exercises, exams, etc.
Due dates for midterm exams, finals, and major written exercises
Statement on how students will be graded (exams, class participation, papers, problem sets, projects, etc., and percentages for each)
Course outline, day by day or week by week. This usually includes the readings for the particular day or week, and may also include study questions for which students will be responsible on a particular day.
URLs for course materials that are available on line
Indication as to use of classroom handouts in addition to course packets. (Students are billed for classroom handouts, excluding syllabi and exams, and have asked that the syllabus make clear whether or not the class will use classroom handouts.)

How much work to assign. See Student Workloads for a discussion of how much reading and other work can feasibly be assigned.

Course evaluations. In planning your syllabus week by week, remember to allow time for the course evaluations that are administered during the first twenty minutes of the last, or second to last, class. This is especially important if you are planning to have visitors speak to your class. For more information, see Course Evaluations.

Posting the syllabus on the internet. Faculty are encouraged to post their syllabus on the Internet Catalog Page so that students from outside the HKS, who may be considering cross registering, may view it. See Posting a Syllabus for posting instructions.

Syllabus format. Students have commented that syllabi are easier to read if certain standard information appears in the same place at the top of each syllabus. The following standard format for introductory information is recommended. The course number and title should be prominent and centered.

______________________________________________________________________________

Harvard Kennedy School

API-105/GSD 5203
Applied Economic Analysis
Fall 2003

Instructor: Professor Jose A Gomez-Ibanez
HKS Office: Littauer 106 (5-1341)
GSD Office: Gund Hall 307 (5-1341)

(Text of syllabus...)

WARNING: Fancy formatting of the syllabus may not stand up on Lotus Notes.

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Posting a Syllabus on the Net

To enter a syllabus, logon to the HKS Intranet and click on the "Classes" tab at the top of the screen. You will see links to the Syllabus as well as Catalog Pages for your classes. Click on the edit link for each class and upload a word document. The syllabus will automatically be converted to PED format and will appear on the Catalog Page in approximately 24 hours. To edit the syllabus, upload a corrected word document.

Please contact Aileen Grunder (5-1344) if you need more information about creating and linking to a PDF file.

Your syllabi will also automatically appear on the HKS catalog pages as well as the HKS class websites when they become active at the start of the semester.

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CLASS PAGES

On the intranet. Intranet Class Pages are created by Information Technology Services (ITS) for every HKS course. Faculty and their staff assistants use these pages to communicate with students in their courses. They are accessible only by logging into the HKS intranet with one’s user name and password. (Log in using the button on the HKS home page; click on CLASSES and then select a course.)

These password-protected pages provide the faculty with many course management tools. Faculty can post announcements and home work assignments, collect homework, initiate quizzes, evaluations, polls, and surveys, hold discussion groups, etc. Many instructors require their students to check the class page daily for updates and announcements. It is particularly useful for providing URLs for current newspaper articles that will be discussed in class.

Who has access? Faculty may choose to have the Class Page available only to the students registered in the class, or extend it to specific others – auditors, for example – or to the entire HKS Intranet community. Most faculty prefer to limit access, especially if students are encouraged to use the Class Page for an exchange of ideas about the course. The faculty member has editing rights to the page, which can be extended to the faculty assistant or CAs/TFs as desired. HKS students are added automatically to the class lists generated by the Registrar's Office. Cross registered students and auditors must be approved by the faculty or the faculty assistant. For jointly listed courses held at the HKS, where the student has registered under the non-HKS course number, the student must request a "cross registered student" account.

The Class Page includes:
      • A link to the course’s HKS Catalog Page on the Internet. If the course syllabus is not included in the Catalog Page, it must be posted on the Class Page.
      • The Class List, plus student pictures with links to student profiles; the class email list is automatically created. (Note that the list will not include auditors or students registered under another number in a jointly listed course. It will include photos of HKS students only.
     • The Classroom, which is the interactive area for the course. It includes the following:
              Announcements
              Assignments, both distributed and collected (with various alternative views of the material, by date, assignment name or number, or student name)
              Discussions (with various views)
              Online links: URLs and library links; see Making Links to Online Journal Articles
              Storage area for texts or problem sets (provided they are not copyrighted), faculty lecture notes
              Page administration: This view is for maintenance of the page; it is seen only by faculty and assistants. Features include:
                     • Participation: for selecting the level of participation e.g., read only, only the students          in the class, or full access to anyone with a HKS account);
                     • Approver: person who has rights to make all edits and is the contact person for ITS (usually the faculty assistant);
                    • Assistants: those who have editing rights;
                    • Students: list of those who should have access to the class page (also creates the email group and picture book for the class).

What you may NOT post on the HKS Class Page
      • Copyrighted course materials may not be posted on the Intranet Class Page unless the instructor has received advance permission from the copyright owner, obtained through the HKS Copyright office (CMO). For information on HKS copyright policies with regard to posting on the intranet, see Copyright permissions for class pages.
      • Student grades. The Family Educational Right and Privacy Act (the Buckley Amendment) prohibits posting grades either by student name or ID number. See Student Records: Privacy Laws for additional information.
      • Class Lists: Information about a student’s course of study is considered confidential; the Buckley Amendment prohibits making public any list of the courses a student is taking.
      • Student phone numbers.   Some students may not have given permission to have their phone numbers published in the Student Directory. Hence you should not post student phone numbers without individual student permission.

Questions and/or comments: mark_bourne@harvard.edu

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