Since 2011 College Communications has produced a unique homepage each weekday to spotlight the rich diversity of Haverford's academic programming, extracurricular offerings, campus culture, and community members' accomplishments.
Our campus has 200 acres of award-winning architecture and landscaping; more than 50 academic, athletic, and residential buildings; and a nationally recognized arboretum with 400 species of trees and shrubs, a 3.5-acre duck pond, gardens, and wooded areas.
Founders Hall at night after a snow storm. Photo: Justin Brendel '18.
Taught by Professor of German and Comparative Literature Ulrich Schönherr, the seminar examines the diverse artistic responses to a rapidly evolving media environment, oscillating between technophilia and technophobia.
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.
See what other courses the Department of Comparative Literature is offering this semester.
Haverford has more than 100 student groups that publish magazines, host symposia, sing a cappella, discuss religion and spirituality, stay politically active, maintain a system of student self-government, dance, demonstrate, and create.
Fords Against Boredom hosted its annual Dating Game, where significant others, friends, or siblings could sign up as a pair to compete in a Newlywed Game-style contest for prizes. Photo: Soha Saghir '21.
Haverford’s new Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) facility houses the College’s Interdisciplinary Minor in Visual Studies, the Haverford Innovations Program, and the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, and its new Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives initiative.
Maker Arts Technician and Coordinator Kent Watson shows students how to use the laser cutter during a recent "Design and Make" workshop. Photo: Dex Coen Gilbert '21
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.”
Friend in Residence Mary Tuomanen leads "The Introduction to Immersive Work" workshop, which takes students through the process of creating a fuller experience for the audience member via mindful use of sound, movement, text, and space. Photo: Claire Chenyu Wang '20
Taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Matthew Incantalupo, this interdisciplinary course explores the relationship between policy and economic outcomes in order to understand “who gets what” in the United States.
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.
Incantalupo in class showing the change in the poverty rate from 1960 to 2015. Photo: Holden Blanco ’17. See what other courses the Department of Political Science is offering this semester.
The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) encourages and supports creative and strategic thinking around a problem, a need, a question, or simply an interest. The goal is to find new solutions and opportunities for entrepreneurial projects and paths of learning.
HIP recently sponsored the Tri-Co Startup Weekend, an immersive gathering that explored entrepreneurship with an emphasis on social impact. Photo: Cole Sansom '19.
The Department of Music at Haverford offers a creative approach to music theory, a curriculum in music history that deals with music in the social context and embraces world music and jazz, while our applied music program and ensembles provide students with opportunities for performances and tours.
Georgia Meyer '19 receives instruction from David Kim, concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, during a masterclass for violin students. Photo: Dex Coen Gilbert '21.
The Departments of astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, and psychology are housed in the state-of-the-art Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center (KINSC).
The 13th annual Undergraduate Science Research Symposium was held at Haverford in the KINSC last fall. Photo: Cole Sansom '19
Haverford has more than 125 student groups that publish magazines, host symposia, sing a cappella, discuss religion and spirituality, stay politically active, maintain a system of student self-government, dance, demonstrate and create.
Caroline Steliotes '18, Kelly Waychoff '18, Benjamin Yellin '18, and Emily Chazen '18 won Fords Against Boredom’s annual Valentine’s themed gingerbread house competition for "Most Structurally Sound" with their entry, "Tritton". Photo: Alexandra Iglesia '21.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.