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 hockey, fencing, and swimming
Strong seasons in hockey, fencing, and swimming
Harvard and the working class
The chasm between elite academia and working-class Americans—and how to bridge it
Harvard College class schedule math requirement
The College adopts a new class schedule, and renews the quantitative requirement with a nod toward data science.
Harvard College Admits 5.2 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2021
The admission rate decreased, barely, to 5.20 percent, from last year’s 5.22 percent.
Harvard plans significant data science institute
Unveiling a University research initiative
Harvard social club sanctions update
Still more developments in the College’s winding path toward changing single-gender social clubs
Challenge to Harvard social-club oaths
A new challenge to College sanctions on single-gender social clubs
A second committee appointed to review social club sanctions policy
A faculty committee considers if there are other means to achieve the non-discrimination goals of a social-organizations policy.
Harvard class schedules change for Allston
A tradition transformed, to prepare for undergraduate education across the river.
Committee Recommends Expansion of Final Club Policy
An implementation committee suggests consistent and expanded application of a policy regarding single-gender social organizations.