Willkommen! Bienvenue! مَرْحَباً ! ยินดีต้อนรับ! Ivy Day has recently passed, and many excited high school seniors have just received their Harvard acceptances. Now comes their next hurdle: graduating. An essential component of Harvard College’s liberal arts curriculum is the foreign language requirement. While it can be quickly fulfilled by scoring a 5 on any Advanced […]
As part of a series with Harvard’s Center for International Development on global economic growth, the Institute of Politics’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum led a conversation on March 25 exploring the repercussions of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development. The event featured three panelists discussing the future of U.S. foreign aid after the […]
Among the many Phillips Brooks House Association programs, Pets as Therapy stands out as one of the few Harvard initiatives to unite animals and students to support those in need. Through carefully organized visits, undergraduate volunteers and trained therapy dogs head to the Cambridge Rehabilitation and Nursing Center to offer canine companionship and its associated […]
Most Harvard undergraduates will take 12-20 courses for their chosen concentration, three classes that fulfill general College writing, language, and quantitative reasoning requirements, four general education courses, and three divisional distributions of arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and engineering across their four years on campus. This does not account for the many students […]
On April 21, Boston will celebrate its annual marathon, an event characterized by tradition, hard work, and enthusiasm for the runners who boldly take on the 26.2-mile course. With hundreds of volunteers offering refreshments to athletes and thousands of spectators lining the race path with encouraging signs, Marathon Monday is a highlight for many city […]
Harvard has long prided itself on its ability to foster intellectual curiosity and excellence among its students. However, this ambitious educational undertaking inevitably requires an extensive faculty. Among this robust staff are teaching fellows. Both professors and undergraduates appreciate the instrumental role that these instructors—known by students as TFs—play in educating the student body, but […]
$53.2 billion. $22.3 billion. $14.8 billion. These are the respective endowments for fiscal year 2024 of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. Collectively, the eight Ivy League schools’ endowments exceed $185 billion. While these robust provisions are paramount in supporting student financial aid, faculty salaries, research, and other university programs, federal funding […]
The Institute of Politics celebrated International Women’s Day with a conversation centered on the #StandWithHer movement, a global initiative inspired by the Academy Award-winning film “To Kill a Tiger.” Held on March 11, the event spotlighted stories of resilience, gender justice, and the role of solidarity in addressing gender-based violence. The panel brought together voices […]
More focus than ever is being cast on Harvard’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives as universities across the country, such as Columbia and Johns Hopkins, face crackdowns due to external government pressure. So, when Harvard itself laid off internal members of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program this past January, many were surprised and outspoken with […]
At long last, Harvard College Housing Day is here again. This annual event—sometimes touted as one of the most important days of a student’s years at the College—decides which of 12 Houses will become a first-year’s home for the next three years. First-years spend the months after winter break navigating blocking group formation—an often dramatic […]