Harvard College
News, milestones, and profiles focused on the undergraduate experience.
Faculty Set to Vote on Grade Inflation Proposal
Results of the email ballot will be announced on May 20.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Named Harvard College Class Day Speaker
The basketball player and writer will address Harvard seniors on May 28.
Harvard’s tax-exempt status threatened
Ability to host foreign students also in jeopardy
A Harvard Love Story in Poetry
Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer
by Primus VI
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Discipline and Financial Aid
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences discusses classroom conversations, boosts aid, addresses discipline—and faces austerity
Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline
After the 2024 encampment, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences committee recommends changes.
Increasing Access
President Alan M. Garber on enhancing financial aid and extending education beyond Harvard’s campus
Harvard Augments Financial Aid—and Girds for Austerity
Dean Hopi Hoekstra details Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ priorities.
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.
“AI Anxiety”
The Undergraduate on the uneasy collision of technology and writing
Harvard Alumni Association President Bob Bowie Jr.
An admissions odyssey, the search for “Casey,” and a Harvard legislative legacy
by Primus VI