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Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.

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

Brianna Macgregor '16 and Ozdemir Vayisoglu '16, both fellows at the Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program, digitally access information about an object at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, during a workshop on cultural interpretation.

Harvard students spend summer on arts and humanities research projects

Harvard undergraduates delve deep into summer humanistic research.

by Francesca Annic...

Global Health Equity Option Scholar Hanna Amanuel '16 (center) with a local family in Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico. Amanuel spent this spring semester working with Compañeros En Salud México, Partners in Health's sister organization in Chiapas, as part of a new study-abroad program.

Global-Health Learning in Rural Mexico

Harvard Global Health Institute introduces a unique study-abroad opportunity, melding coursework with field experience.

by Francesca Annic...

A rendering of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center

Harvard College admissions, business school center, endowment compensation

Harvard Business School’s Chao Center, College admissions, endowment managers’ compensation, and more

Harvard National Academy of Sciences, Pulitzer Prize

National Academy scientists, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Radcliffe Fellows, and more

Jay M. Harris, dean of undergraduate education, led the academic-integrity committee as it drafted an honor code; it takes effect in the fall of 2015.

Harvard honor code, e-mail privacy, gender-neutral housing

Adopting a College honor code, addressing e-mail privacy, moving from courses to credits, and more

Mia Karvonides

Harvard addresses the issue of sexual assaults on campus

Harvard reacts to sexual assaults with new policies and a task force to address issues of campus culture.

Dunster House undergraduates in the morning procession

Morning Exercises: Harvard’s 363rd Commencement

The student speeches, the awarding of degrees, the honorands—and an Aretha Franklin song

Sheryl Sandberg at Class Day

Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook speaks at Harvard College Class Day 2014

Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Lean In gave the Senior Class Day speech for 2014.

The Class of 2014 processed through the Old Yard to Memorial Church for the Baccalaureate service, which includes an address from President Drew Faust.

2014 Baccalaureate urges action for sake of better human community

Faust tells seniors to act for a better human community.

As dean of Harvard College at the turn of the twentieth century, LeBaron Russell Briggs (a member of the College class of 1875) believed that the “unwritten and unspoken purpose” of the College was “not so much intellectual as moral; and her strongest hope is to stamp her graduates with an abiding character.”

Thoughts on the new honor code at Harvard

The College’s new honor code prompts historical—and student—reflections on moral education.

by Suzanne Smith