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

An Indiana kid at Harvard

“The absence of prejudice is still a long way from the presence of interest.”

by Bailey Trela

Harvard spring 2016 news briefs

Shirley Tilghman on the Corporation, Jane Yellen at Radcliffe, encouraging entrepreneurs, aiming at endowments, and more

Harvard Spring 2016 news briefs

An Overseers' challenge slate, reengineering admissions, and General Education revised

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard confronts the challenges of inclusion

The Harvard community confronts the challenges of inclusion. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Room for improvement in Harvard's Wintersession

Room for improvement in Wintersession

Lowell House Renewal to Last Two Years

Lowell residents will live in swing housing from the fall of 2017 through the spring of 2019. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard's Hasty Pudding names Kerry Washington Woman of the Year

The Hasty Pudding picks the Scandal actress for its famous pot.

by Laura Levis

Curriculum overhaul at Harvard College

Harvard prepares to reset its undergraduate curriculum—again.

by John S. Rosenberg

Rhodes Scholarships Awarded to Six Harvard Seniors

Alacha, Huckins, Hyland, Lam, Pham, and Shahawy win two or three years of study at Oxford.

by Jonathan Shaw

Photographs of black professors defaced at Harvard Law School

Tensions arise at the University—as elsewhere around the country. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova