Harvard College
News, milestones, and profiles focused on the undergraduate experience.
Mount Vernon, Historic Preservation, and American Politics
Anne Neal Petri promotes George Washington and historic literacy.
Harvard faces coronavirus impact
The sudden dispersal from Cambridge and Boston, Commencement postponed, and the looming financial consequences
David Barrett reports on New York City’s birds
A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community
The End of Spontaneity
Lauren Fadiman ’21 on being away from college, where one is never alone
All College Spring Semester Grades Will Be Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory
“We cannot proceed as if nothing has changed,” FAS dean Claudine Gay wrote. “Everything has changed."
College Admits 4.9 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2024
And the term bill exceeds $70,000 for the first time.
Harvard College class remote learning
On taking a Harvard Gen Ed class remotely with William C. Kirby
Teaching Academic Honesty in CS50
In a paper aimed at fellow educators, David Malan reports on interventions designed to teach academic honesty in the wildly popular introductory computer science course he teaches at Harvard.
One undergraduate on the Harvard move-out
“What will it mean to end our time on this campus with no closure, no time to reflect on what it all meant?”
Harvard Closes Classes Coronavirus
Students transition to online learning—perhaps for the rest of the semester—and are asked not to return after spring break.
Photo Recap: The 70th Annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year
Elizabeth Banks and Ben Platt received this year’s honors.