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The average financial aid grant awarded to Haverford students is $50,101 and more than 50% of students receive some form of financial aid from the College. On National Philanthropy Day (Nov. 15), students were invited to write thank-you notes to alumni who have participated in Annual Giving this year.
Students thoughtfully expressed their thanks to alumni donors during the Thank A Donor event. Photo: Patrick Montero.
Haverford’s Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) facility houses the College’s Interdisciplinary Minor in Visual Studies, the Haverford Innovations Program, the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, and its new Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives initiative.
Visiting Instructor Sam Cusemano led an Internet of Things mini-hackathon in the VCAM. Photo: Claire Chenyu Wang '20
This introductory anthropology course, taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Patricia Kelly, explores medical systems, health, and healing in a cross-cultural perspective using ethnographic studies and cross-comparative analyses.
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.
See what other courses the Department of Anthropology is offering this semester.
The Friend in Residence program brings gifted and experienced Quakers to campus for extended interactions with students, staff, faculty, and the community to stimulate reflection on the connections between academic pursuits and “letting one’s life speak.”
At one of the public events of his campus residency, M. Antonio “Toño” López Galicia, the executive director of the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City, spoke about La Casa’s mission. Photo: Sarah Jennings '21
The astronomy major is a good fit for students who want an in-depth education in astronomy that can be applied to a range of careers as well as further study in astronomy. Our faculty work at the cutting edge of modern astronomy and cosmology, creating exceptional research opportunities for majors.
At 7 p.m. on Friday, November 16, Haverford's Strawbridge Observatory will hold a family-friendly public observing event. Photo: Sarah Jennings '21.
Haverford's intentionally diverse curricular requirements ensure that our students are well-rounded, expansive thinkers. Students take courses in each of three major academic divisions for a variety of ideas, concepts, and intellectual approaches.
Every year students and faculty from the classics department gather and read a classical text from start to finish. This time, the chosen text was Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey. Wilson, pictured here at the Homerathon in VCAM, is the first woman to translate the Odyssey in its entirety and does so in iambic pentameter. Photo: Claire Blood-Cheney '20.
James House is an accessible community space that's open 24/7 for Haverford students, faculty, and staff. By offering art supplies, programs, and exhibitions James House cultivates art culture on campus.
The Economics Department and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship collaborated to create the Annual Economics Alumni Forum series in 2008. This year’s session focused on President Trump's economic policies on tariffs and trade. Former Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews ’90 and Harvard Professor Marc Melitz ’89 led the discussion along with moderator Jennifer Kowalski ’17.
Marc Melitz '89 speaks to attendees in Sharpless Auditorium during the 2018 Economics Alumni Forum. Photo: Dex Coen Gilbert '21
This English course taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of English Gabriel Sessions explores the work of British writers in the 1930s who tried to fight rising militarism, totalitarian states, and imperial autocracy with prose and poetry.
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.
See what other courses the Department of English is offering this semester. Photo of Sessions’ class by Cole Sansom '19.
Through the Tri-College Consortium, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore students take classes at all three schools and frequently collaborate on extracurricular activities.
The new Tri-Co Philly Program is a semester-long, non-residential program that provides students both curricular and co-curricular activities in nearby Philadelphia.
The urban setting of Philadelphia provides a sense of place to enhance the classroom experience, helping students learn firsthand how the material in the courses is informed by the environment around them.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.