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 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.
Harvard President Faust on “these unsettling times”
President Drew Faust addresses the faculty on undocumented students, research funding, endowments in a new era
A case for tweaking tuition
Tuition income—and what the College can and ought to charge
Strong growth in Harvard sciences enrollment
The swift growth in undergraduate quantitative-science concentrators
Harvard final clubs and sports sexism
The College struggles with single-gender final clubs—and sexist behavior by sports teams.
A Harvard undergraduate moves off campus
Moving off campus, and growing up
Harvard football shocking season finale
After living on the edge, the football team confronts a shocking season-ending upset.
The many roles of Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela
Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela