Tag: Office of Student Life

  • Nation & World

    Policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations to remain

    Harvard President Drew Faust announced at a faculty meeting that the Harvard Corporation has voted to keep the policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations in place.

    8 minutes
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    When undergrads are just living

    New leadership at the Office of Student Life brings ideas and a fresh approach to supporting students and helping them have a rich and satisfying College experience.

    5 minutes
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    Harvard College announces new dean of students

    Katherine O’Dair has been appointed dean of students at Harvard College.

    2 minutes
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    Moments to seize

    Junior Parents Weekend drew more than 1,300 relatives and guests of the Class of 2015.

    2 minutes
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    Dialogue with the deans

    Harvard College interim Dean Donald Pfister and Dean of Student Life Stephen Lassonde made themselves available to field questions from students in a “meet the deans” forum.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    First floor, going up

    The Student Organization Center at Hilles should feel more like home when Harvard undergraduates return to campus in the fall — that is, if home has a performance-quality audio system, a high-definition flat-screen TV, top-of-the-line gaming, Starbucks-level coffee drinks, and space in which to party or to meet with several hundred friends.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A pub of their own

    Undergraduates have been getting into the good times at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub at Loker Commons since it opened in 2007. Student patrons flock there for the programming, affordable pub grub, and, for those over 21, a strong selection of beers from local microbreweries. Students also run the place, gaining valuable business experience and…

    6 minutes
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    Get ready, think big

    Ten of Harvard’s great minds gathered at Sanders Theatre on Thursday (Feb. 17) for the second annual Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion in which 10 speakers each took 10 minutes to explore a topic near and dear to their hearts.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Support for student life

    Harvard’s undergraduates will compete and perform across the country and enjoy the rituals of residential life on campus again this year, thanks to renewed support from Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds’ Student Life Fund.

    3 minutes
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    Looking ahead

    On Junior Parents Weekend, students’ mothers and fathers began to ponder what life might be like after graduation from Harvard.

    3 minutes
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    The college transition

    Freshman Parents Weekend involves first-year students and family in sessions designed to smooth the transition to college.

    6 minutes
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    New Office of Student Life established, Suzy Nelson named dean of OSL

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds announced July 9 the appointment of Associate Dean Suzy Nelson as dean of the newly established Office of Student Life (OSL), which will be created by the merger of the current Office of Residential Life (ORL) and Office of Student Life and Activities (OSLA). In her new role, Nelson…

    2 minutes