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Act on A Dream
Act on a Dream is a student-led, student-run organization at Harvard College focused on eradicating the barriers that Undocu+ students (undocumented, DACA, mixed-status family, and other immigrants) face in realizing their full potential. They provide high school and college students with academic resources, advocate for Harvard specific education reform, and organize conferences for general immigration reform and immigration information. -
Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative
The Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative (SIC) brings together members of the Harvard community who would like to pursue innovative solutions to the world's most pressing social and environmental problems. SIC aims to train and empower new and established entrepreneurs by creating mentorship networks and opportunities for undergraduates. They host the annual Igniting Innovation Summit on Social Entrepreneurship. -
The Visualization Lab
This is a research institute, industry-grade state-of-the-art immersive 3D stereo Visualization Facility that is used for research and small courses to present 3-D representations and visualizations. -
Harvard Ed Portal
The Ed Portal offers academic mentoring by Harvard undergraduates for children and youth in the subject areas of math, science, computer science, writing, and the arts. Allston-Brighton residents and students who attend the Gardner Pilot Academy, regardless of where they live, can participate in the Ed Portal’s youth programs. All programs are free and open to students in grades 1-12. Also has a mentorship program between 25 Harvard College undergraduates and Allston-Brighton children and teens from a variety of backgrounds, encouraging their exploration of science, writing, public speaking, math, technology and the arts. -
Harvard College Writing Project
The Harvard Writing Project (HWP) works to foster excellence in writing instruction throughout Harvard College. HWP consultants work with faculty and Teaching Fellows to develop effective ways of assigning and responding to student writing. The HWP also collaborates with faculty and Teaching Fellows to develop writing guides tailored to specific courses or disciplines. -
Harvard College Writing Center
The Writing Center is staffed by undergraduate peer tutors who help students in all concentrations with course writing assignments and fellowship/grant/graduate school applications through 1-on-1 tutoring services. -
Harvard College Undergraduate Research Assocaition
HCURA's goal is to increase the scope and visibility of Harvard undergraduate research, by connecting them with other researchers through a peer advising program; the Visitas Undergraduate Research Symposium, which showcases Harvard undergraduate research to prefrosh; and new projects such as The Labs Database, a resource for undergraduates looking for research opportunities that catalogues over 100 Harvard labs, and Brevia, a publication for short research articles that presents a nontechnical treatment of cutting-edge research. -
Global Health Education & Learning Incubator
The Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University inspires and supports innovative learning, teaching, and dialogue about cutting-edge, multidisciplinary global challenges. They foster and evaluate new pedagogical tools and instructional strategies that bridge disciplinary fields, educational spaces, and groups of learners through learning studios for workshops, piloting and testing programs, and the provision of the teaching library. -
Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life (aka QuOffice)
The QuOffice runs a workshop called "Thinking Querelly" which aims to create a more BGLTQ informed and inclusive campus. The workshop is open to students, faculty, and administrators. -
Harvard College Women’s Center
The women's center provides an interactive workshop called "Gender 101" to different organizations (student and staff), which aims to build awareness of the diversity of gender identities on campus. Additionally they have a Women in STEM program designed to help support and retain women in STEM fields. -
Hack Harvard College
Hack Harvard is an annual hackathon that transpires over the course of a weekend that also provides mentors, workshops, and tech talks to help ease students through the hackathon experience. -
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations
The Foundation sponsors annual programs and activities that are designed to promote diversity, inclusion and equity in the interest of interracial, intercultural and inter-religious understanding and harmony in the Harvard community. They provide funding to most, if not all, of the cultural organizations working on educating peers about their communities/cultures through SAC grants. -
Academic Resource Center (ARC)
The Academic Resource Center (ARC) at Harvard University supports the academic missions of Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences by helping create conditions that will enable all students to access the transformative power of a liberal arts and sciences education. ACR provides academic coaching, workshops, peer tutoring, conversational support for non-native English speakers. -
Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
By supporting experimentation, innovation, and evidence-based practices, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning seeks to create transformational learning experiences for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. -
FAS Harvard College Writing Center
Writing tutoring program for undergraduates. -
FAS Program in General Education
Guidance for faculty, advisors, TFs and students about Gen Ed. -
FAS Office of Undergraduate Education
The OUE focuses on curricular planning, pedagogy, course development, and the implementation of new Faculty-led programs for undergraduates. We also collaborate with departments, faculty, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to oversee Instructional Support, including the assignment of Teaching Fellows and Teaching Assistants (TFs and TAs). -
FAS Office for Faculty Affairs
The Office for Faculty Affairs (OFA) is a home base of support for faculty and research scholars at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Its network of deans, appointment administrators, and other staff members extends throughout each of the academic divisions and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. We work with faculty and administrators every day, providing information and advice on appointments, promotions, professional development opportunities, leave, retirement, and other aspects of academic life. With the FAS deans, we conduct data-driven and qualitative analyses, develop policies, and help launch initiatives to enhance faculty life. To further support our faculty, we organize orientations and trainings and publish handbooks on a variety of subjects. Our ultimate purpose is to help the FAS to build an outstanding faculty and to create an environment where these gifted scholars and teachers can do their best work. -
FAS Office of Career Services
Provides career advice and connects College, GSAS, and Extension students to in-term, summer, and post-graduating opportunities. -
Office of the Dean for Research Computing
"Research Computing was established in 2007 as part of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS) Division of Science, with the founding principle of facilitating the advancement of complex research by providing leading edge computing services. Research Computing staff maintain expertise in constantly changing computing technologies, while “speaking the language” of FAS researchers, to help them use computing more effectively. Computational resources are available for high performance and scientific computing, bioinformatic analysis, visualization, and data storage. Research Computing continually expands its services and technologies, ensuring researchers have access to a world-class computational environment. Through dedicated leadership and enterprising stewardship, Research Computing is committed to developing a large-scale computing infrastructure that helps researchers with the big data challenges of the 21st century."
