Tag: Minority

  • Nation & World

    Trust, belonging, keys to mental health of students of color

    Experts gathered at the Harvard Chan School said despite progress at making college student bodies more diverse, work still needs to be done to make students of all backgrounds feel welcome, a key step in heading off increased rates of mental illness such students experience on campus.

    6 minutes
    Panel for mental health for people of color at Chan School
  • Nation & World

    Faculty diversity continues to grow

    Harvard continues to make progress in its goal to diversify its faculty, with numbers of women and minorities reaching record highs.

    4 minutes
    Cover of the annual report of the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity.
  • Nation & World

    ‘One-drop rule’ persists

    Harvard psychologists have found that the centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Learning in the labs

    This summer 300 undergraduates from across the country have come to Harvard to pursue research opportunities. Long a mecca for students seeking such experiences, the University’s various research programs existed independently until this year. Now, they’re working in tandem with the Office of the Provost.

    4 minutes