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.
Diversity, design engineering, and admissions in Harvard fall term
Morning Prayers and Freshman Convocation themes, economists’ exodus, health benefits round two, and reengineering admissions
Survey finds nonconsensual sexual contact widespread
For Harvard, the results point in particular to a problem in the College.
Reaction from Harvard Students to Sexual Conduct Survey
Findings suggest a lack of faith in Harvard’s administration
by Zara Zhang
Results of Sexual Conduct Survey released by Harvard and AAU
President Drew Faust calls results “deeply troubling” for Harvard and higher education.
Harvard public service gift
Harvard gift supports undergraduate curriculum and fellowships
Harvard Freshman Convocation 2015
President Faust and administrators speak on themes of diversity, community building, and self-discovery.
by Laura Levis
Harvard President Faust on diversity at Morning Prayers
A beginning-of-term talk on being "generous listeners," as litigation about admissions and diversity proceeds anew
Harvard's fall-semester agenda
Freshman convocation, Morning Prayers, and pending news on the University's agenda as the academic year begins
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Adds Five to Computer Science Faculty
Ballmer gift enables rapid expansion of computer science at the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Harvard’s Houghton Library chronicles 150 years of “Alice in Wonderland”
Houghton Library exhibition chronicles 150 years of Alice in Wonderland.
by Zara Zhang