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Tag: Harvard College
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Campus & Community
A record pool leads to record results
A record applicant pool of 22,955 applied to Harvard College this year, resulting in a number of new milestones. Traditional admission letters (and e-mails) were sent today (March 29) to 9 percent (2,058) of the pool, the lowest admit rate in Harvard’s history.
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Campus & Community
Harvard announces tuition increase, rise in aid
Harvard College tuition will rise 3.9 percent to $31,456 for academic year 2007-08, and need-based scholarship aid will grow by 6.8 percent to $103 million. The total package (tuition plus room, board, and student services fee) will be $45,620, a 4.5 percent increase over last year. More than two-thirds of the Harvard entering class receives…
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Campus & Community
Singer Prize to acknowledge teachers’ impact
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has asked Harvard College seniors to nominate secondary school teachers who have impacted their lives. As part of a new award given by the dean’s office, the Singer Prize for Excellence in Secondary Teaching — funded by the Paul Singer Family Foundation — will recognize the extraordinary work…
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Campus & Community
Practical ethics grants available to undergraduates, application deadline approaching
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics invites Harvard College students to apply for Lester Kissel Grants in Practical Ethics to support research and writing that makes contributions to the understanding of practical ethics. A number of grants will be awarded on a competitive basis for projects to be conducted during the summer of…
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Campus & Community
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. dies at 89
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a member of Harvard’s History Department from 1954 until 1962, died Feb. 27 in New York City. He was 89.
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Science & Tech
Undergrads to compete at Programming Contest
A group of Harvard undergraduates will travel to Tokyo to compete in the Association for Computing Machinery’s 31st annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) on March 12-16. More than 6,000 teams, representing 1,756 universities from around the globe, participated in the regional competitions last fall. The top 88 teams earned coveted spots on the 2007…
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Campus & Community
Harvard College sets Cambridge Queen’s Head opening for April 19
Following intensive consultation with students and some two years of planning and preparations, Harvard College will open the Cambridge Queen’s Head on April 19. The new 176-seat pub in Loker Commons, intended to augment the College’s House-based social life with a comfortable common venue for meeting and socializing, will debut with some 15 special events…
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Campus & Community
College announces new sophomore advising plan
Harvard College has announced a new preconcentration advising program to help rising sophomores. As the former freshmen are being welcomed into House life, advisers will help them choose their concentration.
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Campus & Community
NSP names Harvard senior Josh Bolian top volunteer
Harvard senior Josh Bolian has been selected Volunteer of the Year out of 550 candidates by the National Student Partnerships (NSP). The nation’s only year-round, student-led service organization, NSP works one-on-one with low-income community members by providing intensive on-site and referral services.
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Campus & Community
College offers 28 secondary fields to undergraduates
Ten months after professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to establish secondary fields as part of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review, the College has approved and is now offering 28 of the optional programs to undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
Once again, record numbers apply for admission to the College
Nearly 23,000 students have applied for admission to the Class of 2011. While the final number is yet to be determined, thus far 22,920 have applied, exceeding the previous record of 22,796 for the Class of 2009 and last year’s 22,754.
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Campus & Community
Office for Arts announces spring grant recipients
Sponsored in part by Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) grant program, more than 1,000 students will participate in 38 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at the University this spring. Grants are designed to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.
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Arts & Culture
Tony Award winner to impart wisdom
Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris will conduct two workshops for Harvard undergraduate actors and singers performing audition monologues and songs on Feb. 26 at 3 and 7 p.m.
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Campus & Community
Task force proposes ‘compact’ for excellent teaching
In recent years, Harvard scholars have worked energetically and with great success to create bridges between departments and between faculties, the better to share ideas and foster interdisciplinary approaches to tough, complex issues.
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Campus & Community
The end of Early Action: Steady as it goes
In its final year, the Early Action program saw about the same number of applicants and admitted students as in each of the previous three years. A total of 4,008 students applied this year compared with 3,869, 4,214, and 3,889 in the preceding three years. This year 861 students were admitted compared with 813, 869,…
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Campus & Community
Undergrad grants available through Schlesinger Library
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards (ranging from $100 to $2,500) for relevant research projects.
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Arts & Culture
Playwright Mayer ’10 is recipient of arts award
Harvard College freshman and playwright Jonathan Mayer will debut “Mistakes, Inc.” as part of VSA arts 22nd annual Playwright Discovery evening Sept. 28 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. An international nonprofit organization affiliated with the Kennedy Center, VSA arts showcases the accomplishments of artists with disabilities, while promoting increased…
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Campus & Community
Harvard expands financial aid for low- and middle-income families
Reinforcing its commitment to opportunity and excellence across the economic spectrum, Harvard today (March 30) announced a significant expansion of its 2004 financial aid initiative for low- and middle-income families.
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Campus & Community
Gwynne Evans, Renaissance lit scholar, at 93
G. (Gwynne) Blakemore Evans, Cabot Professor of English Literature Emeritus at Harvard University and this country’s most distinguished editor of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, died on Dec. 23, 2005, at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 93. His death was the result of complications that followed a recent stroke.
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Campus & Community
Harvard senior awarded Mitchell Scholarship
Harvard College senior Victoria Sprow is among the 12 national recipients of the 2006-07 George J. Mitchell Scholarship. Only the third Harvard student ever to receive the Mitchell award, Sprow will study for a master’s degree in creative writing at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
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Campus & Community
President Summers’ office hours in ’06
President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office.
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Campus & Community
In brief
Course in reading, study strategies set to begin in mid-February; Lewis and Clark exhibit extends stay at Peabody Museum through 2006