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.
The Undergraduate on Harvard political polarization
The Undergraduate considers campus debate and action in a polarized era.
Harvard Law dean to depart and other news briefs
The Law School dean steps down, graduate-student union balloting, divestment, and more
Faculty Hear Report on Trends in Hiring and Promotion
Progress reported on gender, but with notable areas of concern remaining for some minority hires
Harvard’s broader approach to single-gender sanctions
Détente in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as more voices will be heard
Change for a Harvard policy on single-gender organizations?
A faculty committee will make recommendations to change or revise the policy.
Anti-Trump protest kicks off spring semester on campus
Day one back on campus, and Harvard students are already pushing back against the new Trump administration. Here are some of the changes they're hoping to see at Harvard.
by Oset Babür
Harvard’s Economic Diversity Problem
A new analysis reveals the skewed population of elite colleges.
Harvard final clubs sanctions academic challenges
Difficult choices in applying the new College policy on final clubs and other single-gender social organizations
College admits 14.5 percent of early applicants
Harvard briefly abandoned early action a decade ago. Now, the admissions dean says the program is the “new normal.”
Harvard faculty divisions social clubs
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences remains sharply divided about sanctions and multiple, conflicting goals.