Harvard Extension School (HES) is the extension school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Under the Division of Continuing Education of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (which also oversees the undergraduate Harvard College and graduate-studies Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), Harvard Extension School offers more than 900 on-campus, online, and hybrid liberal arts and professional courses as open enrollment offerings for adult learners in and between the undergraduate/graduate level. The school confers graduate (ALM) and undergraduate (ALB) degrees, academic certificates, and a pre-medical program certificate. Degree candidate admission generally requires three "B or better" grades in degree-credit coursework at Harvard, followed by a formal application and an Extension School admissions committee decision. Since the school's inception, it has only graduated less than one-fifth of one percent of its students. History Founded in 1910 by Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, the Harvard Extension School grew out of the Lowell Institute, created according to the terms of a bequest by John Lowell. It was designed to serve the educational interests and needs of the Greater Boston community, particularly those "who had the ability and desire to attend college, but also had other obligations that kept them from traditional schools." It has since extended its academic resources worldwide. During the 1920s, affiliates traveled around New England to teach courses offsite. While they were primarily aimed at teachers, courses were offered whenever 40 or more students expressed an interest. Professors traveled on a weekly basis to places as far away as Yonkers, New York, some 200 miles away. In the early years, a commission composed of several Boston area schools ran the courses, though it was largely a Harvard-run program. Early faculty included Charles Townsend Copeland, William Yandell Elliott, William L. Langer, Oscar Handlin, Perry Miller, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Frank M. Carpenter. In his will, John Lowell asked his successors to develop courses "more erudite and particular corresponding to the age and wants of the age." By the 50th anniversary of the Commission of Extension in 1960, more than 1,400 courses had been offered for a total of over 85,000 enrollments. Lowell's bequest limited tuition to no more than "two bushels of wheat." During the Great Depression, this amounted to roughly $5 per semester course. Several years after his retirement, President Lowell wrote that the Extension courses "have given a service to the public ... which