Harvard College

News, milestones, and profiles focused on the undergraduate experience.

people stand at a table that reads "Harvard College Dean of Students Office First-Year Orientation"

Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths

A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.

by Jonathan Shaw

Francis J. Doyle III

Harvard appoints Francis J. Doyle engineering dean

New leader of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Harvard measures on classroom privacy

A follow-up to last year’s observation of Harvard classrooms—and emerging issues from course-management software

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard teaching mentoring prizes

Harvard College and GSAS recognize teachers and mentors.

Sean D. Kelly

Harvard College general education criticized

Sharply critical faculty review of the College’s flagship general-education curriculum

by John S. Rosenberg

A Divest Harvard sign hangs from the windows of Mass. Hall.

Divest Harvard Protesters Blockade President Faust's Massachusetts Hall Office

Invoking history, activists call weeklong event the “lunch-counter moment for the twenty-first century.”

by Stephanie Garlock

Harvard College admissions and costs

The new students, and the advent of the $60,000-plus term bill

Kenyatta Smith ’15 tallied 12 points and made six of seven shots against Brown on Saturday. If he performs reliably in the post against Yale, it will go a long way toward advancing Harvard’s NCAA tournament hopes.

Harvard men's basketball heads to a one-game playoff with Yale

After losing to Yale and defeating Brown, Harvard men’s basketball faces a one-game playoff.

by David L. Tannenwald

Wien professor of drama and of English and comparative literature Martin Puchner, who has directed development of the proposal on the theater concentration

Harvard advances theater concentration

An undergraduate concentration in “theater, dance, and media” comes into focus.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard College honor code

Implementing Harvard College’s honor code

The renovation of Winthrop House includes plans for a five-story addition to Gore Hall at Plympton and Mill streets.

Harvard's Winthrop House renovation to include five-story addition to Gore Hall

Renovation will include a five-story addition to Gore Hall.

by Jonathan Shaw