Harvard College

News, milestones, and profiles focused on the undergraduate experience.

Historic building entrance featuring tall columns and a rounded arch doorway.

College Leaders Outline Overhaul Plan

A new proposed structure, layoffs, and a five-day-a-week in-person work mandate will take effect by fall.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Professors Douglas Melton and Michael Sandel prepare to launch their new Gen Ed course, open to students from across the University, at Klarman Hall.

Harvard College Debuts Gen Ed

The College’s required curriculum relaunches with dozens of new experiential, case-based courses.

by Nina Pasquini

The class of 2023 displays its class year banner for the first time

Convocation 2019

First-year Convocation for the class of 2023

by Nina Pasquini

Portrait of Julie Reuben, Warren professor of the history of American education, newly appointed inaugural faculty dean of Phillips Brooks House Center, and Travis Lovett, the newly appointed assistant dean of civic engagement and service

Harvard Public Service Leaders Announced

An inaugural faculty director and an assistant dean direct a broader civic-engagement effort.

by John S. Rosenberg

From Bureau of Study Counsel to Academic Resource Center

From Bureau of Study Counsel to Academic Resource Center

Portrait photo of admissions stalwart Dwight Miller

Dwight Miller, longtime Harvard admissions officer, retires

College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.

by John S. Rosenberg

Photograph of Julie Chung and Drew Pendergrass

New Ledecky Fellows for 2019-2020

The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.

Linda Liedel (at left), representing Germany in Spain’s 2019 La Manga Tournament, competes for the ball with a Danish rival.

Linda Liedel of Harvard women’s soccer

Linda Liedel ’21 always knew how good she could be.

by Jacob Sweet

An illustration of Harvard Yard with a superimposed rendering of a youthful male figure contemplating his place at the College

A life lesson from Willie Banks

A life lesson from Willie Banks

by Chad M. Oldfather

Photograph of John Fish

On YouTube, watch vlogger John Fish grow

On YouTube, watch John Fish grow.

by Jacob Sweet

A photograph of an eighteenth-century, three-inch pocket globe in its open case

A pocket globe at the Harvard Archives

Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe

by Jacob Sweet