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"Health Care Economics is an amazing course. The professor did a fantastic job dissecting the complexities of health care into chewable chunks that made it easier to understand the complexities."

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2026 HILT Conference

The 2026 Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) Conference, “The Weight of the Degree: Rigor, Responsibility, and the Modern Campus,” will be held at the David Rubenstein Treehouse in Allston, MA, on Friday, September 25, 2026. Registration for the conference will open in late August. Check back on the HILT website for updates. Questions? Email hilt@harvard.edu.

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