Harvard College
News, milestones, and profiles focused on the undergraduate experience.
Stand-Up to Simmer Down
In comedy groups, students find ways to be absurd, present, and a little less self-conscious.
by Nina Pasquini
Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status Threatened
Ability to host foreign students also in jeopardy
by Jonathan Shaw
We Were Students Once...
Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer
by Primus VI
Back to Basics
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences discusses classroom conversations, boosts aid, addresses discipline—and faces austerity
by John S. Rosenberg
Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline
After the 2024 encampment, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences committee recommends changes.
by John S. Rosenberg
Increasing Access
President Alan M. Garber on enhancing financial aid and extending education beyond Harvard’s campus
by Alan M. Garber
Harvard Augments Financial Aid—and Girds for Austerity
Dean Hopi Hoekstra details Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ priorities.
by John S. Rosenberg
It’s Academic (and Other Harvard Concerns)
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences focuses on class attendance, grades—and wider worries about “uncomfortable” threats to academia.
by John S. Rosenberg
AI Anxiety
The Undergraduate on the uneasy collision of technology and writing
by Serena Jampel
Origin Stories
An admissions odyssey, the search for “Casey,” and a Harvard legislative legacy
by Primus VI
Music and Medicine
Toussaint Miller explores the healing power of art.
by Lydialyle Gibson