Harvard College
News, milestones, and profiles focused on the undergraduate experience.
Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths
A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.
Harvard Lowell House changes portraits display
A meaningful change in the images on display in the renewed Lowell House
Excavating 1968
The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond
Harvard Adams House Renewal
A complex, four-year plan for renewing a complicated House
Launching Gen Ed, rethinking shopping week
Harvard College Gen Ed curriculum nears, and faculty members rethink course registration.
Disadvantaged students in elite colleges
Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
The Undergraduate considers the Smith Campus Center
The Undergraduate considers the Smith Campus Center
Harvard renames art film department
Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film
Hasty Pudding Announces 2019’s Man and Woman of the Year
Bryce Dallas Howard and Milo Ventimiglia will receive their awards on January 31 and February 8, respectively.
Will future online education become limited to professional degrees?
Harvard and MIT experiences suggest a more constrained vision for massive free courses.
Harvard’s Womanless History
Completing the University’s self-portrait