Academics
Found on the APO website, this is a term for accessible points of entry for students entirely new to a department, examples include Introduction to Lens-Based Practices, Food and Fantasy in Irish Tradition, Cellular Biology and Molecular Medicine, and Social Psychology.
What is a gateway course?
The role responsible for academic guidance to students through mid-October of their sophomore fall.
What is a Pre-Concentration Advisor?
The program where PAFs can take first years on off campus experiences like bowling or visiting Salem.
What is Beyond the Yard?
Katia Chadaideh, Madeleine Currie, Katie Derzon, and Dwight Fee all hold this position.
What is a Resident Dean of First Year Students? (Yard Dean)
The maximum amount that a PAF can spend on one transaction with a DBC.
What is $75?
This is the maximum number of courses that may be taken pass/fail (with permission of the instructor) in fulfillment of the distribution requirements.
What is three?
This office has a dual role to facilitate study abroad and to support international undergraduates.
What is the Office of International Education?
This Yard is the only Yard to comprise exactly two dorms.
What is Oak Yard?
The place where basketball teams play, and where the "Welcome to the Community" event will occur.
What is the Lavietes Pavillion?
This federal law requires responsible employees, such as PAFs operating in their PAF role, to promptly share that information about a disclosure of sexual harassment or other sexual misconduct impacting a Harvard community member.
What is Title IX?
Required for all students taking Math 1a or Math MA, this event occurs during orientation on August 29 and generates one of four outcomes for students.
What is the Algebra and Precalculus Skill Check (Math Skill Check)?
The street address of the APO and ARC
What is 1414 Mass Ave?
“Members of the Harvard College community commit themselves to producing academic work of integrity” is an excerpt from this statement to which incoming students are prompted to respond.
What is the Harvard College Honor Code?
This Harvard faculty member returns to teach the Gen Ed course Justice and is delivering the keynote speech for Intellectual Vitality.
Who is Michael Sandel?
The activation code for the Declining Balance Card.
What are the last 4 digits of your HUID?
New in 2024, to earn this certificate, student integrate coursework, sustained public service activity, and a reflective capstone project
What is the Certificate for Civic Engagement?
This office is responsible for helping with academic and housing accommodations in both long term and short term arrangements for students.
What is the DAO (Disability Access Office)?
This well-named new course meets five times a week with a preceptor and is designed to provide extra support targeting foundational skills in algebra, geometry and quantitative reasoning
What is Math MA5?
According to the Perspectives Module, Moral Foundations Theory suggests there six "taste buds" of morality. These are three.
What are (three of) Care, Fairness, Liberty, Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity?
Including both the proctor budget and the PAF budget, the amount of money budgeted per first-year student (per year)
What is $90?
These three courses are the only Fall 2024 courses approved for simultaneous enrollment.
What are CS50, CS61, and Econ 10a?
Evaluation of petitions for exceptions to academic policies or rules, or for certain changes in course enrollment and registration, is one of the three areas of work of this FAS Committee.
What is the Administrative Board (Ad Board)?
This Monday of the term is the last Monday that a student can change the grading basis for a course.
What is the 11th Monday? (Nov 18, 2024)
This student organization partners with CAMHS to deliver first-year mental health workshops.
What is Active Minds?
This 1974 law, also known as the Buckley Amendment, allows PAFs to see their advisees' course enrollments and allows students to view their own admissions file.
What is FERPA?