JUNIOR FAMILY WEEKEND Feb. 21–22, 2020 CLASS OF 2021 PARKING INFORMATION Welcome Parents Parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage from 5:00pm Thursday to 2:00pm on Sunday. Notify the Parking Services Monitor at the booth that you are attending Junior and Families! Family Weekend to receive a complimentary access ticket. VISITING THE LIBRARIES Thank you for joining us for Junior Family Weekend. Over the Families are invited to visit campus libraries during regular next two days, as you spend time on campus, you will have the library hours (see library.harvard.edu/libraries for hours opportunity to glimpse the transformative power of Harvard and locations). Please bring your family button. College that our students experience each and every day. The opportunity to visit classes and engage in discussions with ON CAMPUS DINING IN THE HOUSES faculty members will offer you a sense of where the intellectual Families are welcome to dine in House dining halls while they transformation begins for our students. are on campus. The House Dining halls do not accept credit cards. Meal times and rates: At the same time, the many open houses and receptions in our • Breakfast (7:30-10:00am, Thur-Sat): $9.25 residential communities will allow you to see how our campus • Continental Breakfast (7:30-10:00am, Sun): $8.00 comes together in ways that support the social transformation • Brunch (11:30am-2:15pm, Sun): $14.75 of our students. And finally, we hope that your time on campus • Lunch (12:00-2:15pm Thur-Fri): $14.75 meeting your student’s peers and their families will open a • Complimentary Lunch (11:30am-2:15pm, Sat): Hosted window to the rich diversity of experiences and perspectives by Dean of Students Office that contribute to the personal transformation for our • Dinner (5:00-7:15pm, Thur-Sun): $18.25 students. We hope you have a chance to take advantage of all of these opportunities and we wish you a memorable weekend. ATHLETIC FACILITY ACCESS The Malkin Athletic Center, Hemenway Gymnasium, and Sincerely, Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center will be accessible to Lily Castro family members (over the age of 14 years). Please bring your Director of Orientation and Family Engagement family button. Guests are asked to sign a waiver. Hours are Harvard College Dean of Students Office listed at recreation.gocrimson.com/recreation/hours. PROGRAM KEY ABOUT THE DEAN OF STUDENTS OFFICE (DSO) In partnership with students and colleagues, the Dean of Free admission Family button required Students Office cultivates engagement, belonging, and respect; with family button for admission fosters an integrated living and learning community and inspires self-discovery among Harvard College students. Featured program 9:00am– PEABODY MUSEUM OF Family Weekend 5:00pm ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY OPEN HOUSE Schedule 11 Divinity Avenue See the exhibits on Maya monuments, the FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 culture of food, and the archaeology of early Harvard, including the colonial Indian CHECK-IN AND WELCOME College. Harvard Commons, Richard A. and Susan F. Student-led tour at 12:30-1:15pm. Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue 9:30am– ACADEMIC RESOURCE CENTER 11:00am (ARC) OPEN HOUSE 8:30am– Check-In 1414 Massachusetts Avenue, Floor 3R 5:00pm Check in to collect the schedule, campus Visit the ARC and meet the team map, family buttons, open class listings, committed to supporting your students and other helpful resources. Family buttons as they work to sharpen their academic are required to enter museums, libraries, skills. We offer peer-tutoring services, gyms, and the dining hall for Saturday’s workshops and academic coaching to help lunch but not open houses, panel students reach their full potential. Staff discussions, or lectures. and Academic Coaches will be on hand to Information available throughout the day. answer questions. 8:30am– Coffee hosted by Dean of Students Office 9:30am– 10:00am OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL Please join our Dean of Students, Katie 11:00am EDUCATION (OIE): O’Dair and members of her staff for coffee STUDYING OUTSIDE THE YARD and a chat before you head out for the day. 1414 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd floor (located next to Bank of America entrance) 8:30am– Class Ring Information Please visit the Office of International 10:30am The Harvard Shop will be available to Education to learn about how students answer questions about class rings and the can make academic year, term-time, and One Ring Ceremony which will take place summer study abroad opportunities part of from 2:30pm-3:30pm in Science Center their Harvard experience. Hall C on Saturday, February 22nd. Class ring questions can also be directed to 10:00am– HARVARD ART MUSEUMS [email protected]. 5:00pm OPEN HOUSE 8:30am– Yearbook Information 32 Quincy Street 5:00pm Representatives from the Yearbook will Discover the rich collections of the Fogg, be on hand throughout the day to answer Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler questions about the upcoming Class of Museums. Explore Painting Edo: Japanese 2021 Yearbook. Copies of the Class of 2021 Art from the Feinberg Collection, a special Register will also be available for purchase. exhibition featuring a dizzying array of hanging scrolls, folding screens, sliding VISIT CLASSES doors, fan paintings, and woodblock- Various times and locations printed books from the Japanese modern Open class schedules are available at era. Check-In. Very few courses meet on 10:00am– Fridays. Those listed are included with the WADSWORTH HOUSE 12:00pm instructor’s permission. OPEN HOUSE Wadsworth House, 1341 Massachusetts 9:00am– HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL Avenue, University Marshal’s Office, First 5:00pm HISTORY OPEN HOUSE Floor 26 Oxford Street You are invited to an open house at historic See new and historic exhibits featuring Wadsworth House, where you can learn a Harvard’s extraordinary natural history bit of Harvard history, tour the photo gallery collections and research from across the of notable Commencement speakers and University. honorary degree recipients, and hear about the priorities and challenges facing our modern University. 10:00am– HARVARD UNIVERSITY 11:00am– THE HONOR CODE AND ACADEMIC 12:00pm ARCHIVES OPEN HOUSE 11:45am INTEGRITY AT HARVARD COLLEGE Pusey Library Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Visit the Archives for a display of historical In Spring 2014, the FAS faculty voted to treasures, learn about Harvard’s history, adopt an Honor Code for Harvard College, traditions, and student life from the 17th confirming integrity as the foundation of century to the present. Curators will guide the academic experience at Harvard. This visitors through two exhibits on Harvard value is embodied both by the instructional history. experiences in the classrooms and the work of the Honor Council, which strives 10:00am– HARVARD MAP COLLECTION to educate the community about issues 12:00pm OPEN HOUSE of academic integrity via the principles of Pusey Library community governance. Visit the Harvard Map Collection and see Moderator: Brett Flehinger, Associate Dean new and old maps ranging from the first of Academic Integrity and Student Conduct modern atlases to Japanese military maps and Secretary of the Honor Council captured during World War II to maps made from the latest geospatial data. Our 11:00am– OFFICE OF BGLTQ* STUDENT 200-year-old collection has over 500,000 12:00pm LIFE AND OFFICE OF DIVERSITY maps and terabytes of data. Talk with Map EDUCATION & SUPPORT OPEN Librarians and learn how students and HOUSE faculty use these maps in their research. Grays Hall, Lower Level - South Entrance The staff and undergraduate interns in the 10:00am– HARVARD FOUNDATION FOR Office of BGLTQ Student Life and the Office 12:00pm INTERCULTURAL AND RACE of Diversity Education & Support invite RELATIONS OPEN HOUSE you to visit their newly renovated space Thayer Hall, Basement Room 2 in Grays Hall. Learn about their signature Come meet the staff and interns of the programs, events, and resources. Everyone Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and is welcome! Race Relations. The purpose of the Harvard *Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Queer, & Foundation is to work with undergraduate Questioning students of all backgrounds to improve 11:00am– HISTORICAL TOUR BY CRIMSON intercultural understanding on campus 12:00pm KEY SOCIETY through scholarly programs and cultural John Harvard Statue, Harvard Yard celebrations. Join the Crimson Key Society for an 10:00am– HARVARD COLLEGE WOMEN’S hour-long tour highlighting 384 years of 12:00pm CENTER OPEN HOUSE Harvard’s history and legends. Please bring Canaday Hall B-Entry comfortable walking shoes. Come meet the staff and interns of the 1:00– FRIDAY AFTERNOON SEMINARS Women’s Center and learn about their 4:30pm All seating is on a space available basis. programs, events, and services. All family Once a room is filled, we must keep the members and students are welcome. doors closed. The panelists and speakers 10:00am– WIDENER LIBRARY TOURS greatly appreciate audience members 12:00pm Widener Library arriving before the start of the session. Visit Harvard’s flagship library to learn more 1:00– WRITING A THESIS about the extraordinary collections, spaces, 1:45pm Science Center Hall C and services available for supporting For many juniors the decision whether to student research and learning. Guided write a thesis is significant and one that will tours of the library will be offered every heavily impact their senior year. For some a 15 minutes, with the last tour departing at thesis is not a choice, but rather a required 11:30am. Tours will last approximately 25 part of their concentration. This discussion minutes. A resource showcase will highlight will address what factors go into deciding Harvard Library’s innovative programing to write a thesis and what the process of and diverse resources for student research.