Tag: Inclusion

  • Campus & Community

    A session to foster inclusion, belonging

    More than 750 trade experiences, ideas at Sanders Theatre session to encourage a more inclusive Harvard.

    5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Delving into ‘belonging’ at Harvard

    The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging, created by President Drew Faust in September, is gathering information through listening sessions and has started subcommittees to examine how to build on Harvard’s commitment to campus diversity and be a university where all feel they belong.

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A more inclusive Harvard

    Harvard President Drew Faust has convened a University-wide task force to examine issues of inclusion and belonging on Harvard’s increasingly diverse campus. The co-chairs discuss the task ahead.

    14 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    ‘Making Harvard a campus for all’

    Citing the harmful impact created by gender discrimination affecting students at Harvard College, administrators announced that beginning in the fall of 2017, new students who join unrecognized single-gender social organizations will not be permitted to hold leadership positions in recognized student organizations and athletic teams.

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    When housing becomes a community

    When Micaela Connery’s cousin was born with significant physical and developmental disabilities, Connery didn’t realize the full impact it would have on her life. This spring Connery will graduate with an M.P.P. from Harvard Kennedy School.

    3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Q&A on changing House master title

    In a question-and-answer session, two Harvard deans sat down with the Gazette late last week to talk about the impending change to the House master title that was announced at the Dec. 1 faculty meeting, and to give the thinking behind the switch.

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A national wave hits Harvard

    Issues of race and inclusion prompted fresh discussion across the University last week, and police probed an act of vandalism at the Law School.

    5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    With inclusion as the goal

    Harvard staff attended a workforce management conference to learn skills to communicate, solve problems, and innovate effectively across cultures.

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    New chapter in student life

    Harvard administrators, faculty, and students converged on Boylston Hall March 27 for the much-anticipated opening of the new Office of BGLTQ Student Life. The reception in the BGLTQ lounge and ceremony in the Fong Auditorium celebrated the beginning of a new chapter in the University’s ongoing effort to embrace diversity and inclusion.

    3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Hammonds challenges students

    At Morning Prayers in the Memorial Church Sept. 2, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds said that students should stretch beyond their comfort zones to make Harvard a truly inclusive place, and argued that the College’s new “Class of 2015 Pledge” was an important part of the effort to encourage them to do so.

    3 minutes