Tag: Outreach

  • Nation & World

    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
  • Nation & World

    Science and delight, in the blink of an eye

    The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences hosted an annual tradition, a holiday lecture for children on how science works.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Teachers’ house calls make pupils, parents feel at home

    Boston, which is working in partnership with Harvard University, began its program two years ago and has expanded it to five elementary schools. It followed Springfield’s effort, which launched about five years ago as a partnership among that city’s teachers union, a middle school, and the Pioneer Valley Project, a faith-based community-organizing group that works…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    ‘Call of Service’

    Harvard will begin a week of events and activities relating to service and outreach and involving Schools across the University community. The programs will help to highlight the richness of the public service landscape at Harvard and will introduce students to the many varieties and pathways into service around the University.

    10 minutes