Harvard College
News, milestones, and profiles focused on the undergraduate experience.
Readers Respond to Our ‘Grade Inflation’ Survey
A sampling of thoughts about the many A’s at Harvard
Harvard course requirements quantitative reasoning
How Harvard will structure its General Education “quantitative reasoning” requirement
Harvard College course shopping period
Undergraduates’ flexibility in registering for courses is retained for at least a year or two.
College Admits 4.5 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2023
And the term bill approaches $70,000
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