The ideas that change the world happen at Harvard. For nearly four centuries, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has defined excellence in research and teaching. Grounded in a commitment to truth and critical inquiry, our community of scholars is advancing academic discovery and training the next generation of leaders through a transformational education experience.
There are now important challenges the FAS must rise to meet—both in the Yard and in the world. The FAS is readying itself for a thriving future that leverages our community’s unparalleled breadth of disciplines, perspectives, and approaches; empowers our faculty and students to commit their academic talents to problems that matter; and delivers an educational experience that prepares all our students for lives of leadership and service in a diverse, global, unequal society. This vision is grounded in three important goals:
- Build an academic community of unparalleled strength and activate its full potential
- Power innovation and discovery across the FAS and Harvard
- Connect Harvard to the world by addressing problems of public importance
These synergistic and dynamic goals cut to the heart of her vision for the FAS to be a community of unbounded intellectual ambition and to recognize Harvard’s responsibility to deeply engage with the world’s most urgent problems.
Harvard remains a place of unlimited possibility because of the generosity of our dedicated community. Alumni, parents, and friends make the future possible, enabling the FAS to invest in the brightest students and the most creative and accomplished faculty and to put resources behind their best ideas.
The FAS is ready for what’s next and impatient to build a more ambitious, more equitable, and more impactful future. There is an opportunity to mobilize around a set of priorities that are grounded in the FAS’s core academic mission, responsive to the needs of the moment, and that set up the FAS for long-term success. To that end, the FAS is pursuing a set of core priorities and aspirational initiatives that support students and faculty, while activating the power of its academic ambition.
Sustaining the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Academic Core
The activities that are at the core of building a community of unparalleled strength
- Flexible, Current-Use
Investing in Extraordinary Talent
The support that will enable us to recruit and retain the brightest scholars
Powering Innovation and Discovery for the World
Support for signature and emerging initiatives that address challenges of public importance
You can empower FAS scholarly innovation and support our faculty and students, as they take on consequential opportunities, from quantum science to racial justice to early-stage research we have yet to imagine. Investments today enable our community of scholars to do their best work and to preserve Harvard as a well-spring of knowledge, innovation, and global impact.
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