Featured series 
Tag: College
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Arts & Culture
Finding herself in chapter, verse
Far from her native Indianapolis, Alyssa Gaines steeps herself in life on Harvard’s campus.
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Campus & Community
How they’re feeling
Mental health is a crisis-level issue for young people today, research says. We asked Harvard students to look inside and tell us why.
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Campus & Community
The 74-year-old College graduate
Robin Batteau wondered if he was up to the challenge, 50 years after family financial trouble disrupted his education. Come May, he’ll hold the proof in his hands.
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Campus & Community
Housing Day is back in the house
After a two-year COVID hiatus, upperclass students return to the Yard to welcome first-years to their future homes.
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Campus & Community
Feeling passionate about math
Morgane Austern joined the Department of Statistics as an assistant professor in July.
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Campus & Community
First-years make their move
For first-years, move-in day offers excitement, with a touch of anxiety.
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Campus & Community
Gearing up for a consequential fall
Harvard faculty shape online classes to engage with COVID, race reckoning, election, and beyond.
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences will bring up to 40% of undergraduates to campus this fall
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences decides it will bring up to 40 percent of undergraduates, including all first-year students, to campus for the fall semester.
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Campus & Community
College names new faculty deans for five Houses
Faculty deans have been appointed to Cabot, Quincy, Winthrop, Eliot, and Kirkland Houses, effective July 1.
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Campus & Community
Conan arrives, and the crowd goes wild! (Not really)
Comedian Conan O’Brien ’85 addressed the Class of 2020 Thursday as part of an afternoon of virtual ceremonies that captured the joy, poignancy, and humor of the day.
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Campus & Community
‘Unsteady,’ ‘lucky,’ and ‘overwhelmed’
Harvard students reflect on the shift to online classes and an unplanned move home.
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Campus & Community
40,246 apply to College Class of ’24
Harvard expands financial aid to eliminate summer contribution.
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Campus & Community
Advice to students: Do something meaningful with your life
Take some time, look around, and work at something that makes you happy, Steven Levitsky counsels.
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Campus & Community
Matchmaker, matchmaker put me in your algorithm
After 25 Valentine’s Days, Datamatch, a student-run online matchmaking service that pairs Harvard students for a date, is going nationwide.
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Campus & Community
Good cop, nice cop
Depending on whom you ask, the most photographed Harvard institution is either the John Harvard Statue, Massachusetts Hall, or Harvard University Police Department Officer Charles Marren. “I might be more…
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Campus & Community
A life in service
Kevin Ballen didn’t plan on taking two gap years. But he did intend to live a life less constrained by society’s expectations. “In high school, my goal was to shift…
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Campus & Community
Voicing their differences
The student group 21 Colorful Crimson performs a mix of covers and originals, with hopes of eventually recording an album of their own material.
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Campus & Community
82% of those admitted will join Class of ’22
So far 82 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2022 have notified Harvard they will matriculate to campus this August.
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Science & Tech
Not a popularity contest
New research from faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School finds that a majority of college freshmen believe others have more friends than they do, when they often don’t.
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Campus & Community
Dean Khurana’s freshman year
After his freshman year as College dean, Rakesh Khurana takes stock, and reinforces the importance of diversity.
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Campus & Community
Reconnecting academic support services
After five years of gathering input from students, faculty, and staff, after lengthy planning, and after careful thinking about the best way to support undergraduates, the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) will return to Harvard College oversight starting July 1.
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Campus & Community
Rhythm and motion
Here’s a sound and snapshot sample of Wintersession classes in action.
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Campus & Community
Exploration, transformation
The fifth annual Harvard College Wintersession featured a host of events, from print-making on clay tablets to yoga classes to programming featuring prominent alumni.
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Nation & World
Faust makes ‘the case for college’
In the face of mounting concerns about the cost and value of college, higher education continues to be the most effective route to economic and personal success, Harvard President Drew Faust argued during an address in Dallas Friday to nearly 500 high school students, teachers, and guidance counselors.
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Campus & Community
Composting program grows in the Yard
To create a more sustainable campus, the College will implement composting in all freshman dormitories.
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Science & Tech
The teaching launch
A new study found that middle school teachers can have a real impact not only on students’ short-term educations, but on whether they attend college and on the size of their future paychecks.
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Campus & Community
Hammonds to step down as dean in July
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds announced today that she will step down as dean on July 1, choosing to return to teaching and research in the departments of the History of Science and African and African American Studies.
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Arts & Culture
Writing as discovery
Professor Jill Lepore delivered the third and final presentation in Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds’ book talks in the Widener Library rotunda. The series was designed to bring students and faculty together outside of the classroom.
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Arts & Culture
Humanities in the digital age
A panel of experts discussed the study of humanities in the digital age, and how humanists’ skill set is well-suited for careers in this advancing world of technology. The discussion was part of a series supported by the FAS Office of Career Services.
