The Huffington Post reports that Harvard has a contract with Barclays to sell student information for credit card solicitation…alumni info too.

At Harvard, the alumni association is supposed to provide a subsidiary of Barclays PLC with “as complete a list as possible of all Harvard alumni and students,” according to the association’s affinity contract. But Harvard spokesman Kevin Galvin said the card was never marketed to students. “We view this card as a service to alumni,” he said.

The practice is apparently commonplace among universities.

Hard to tell from that response if Harvard turned over the information or not…