Through the generosity of alumni, parents, and friends, the FAS remains an extraordinary place of transformative experiences for students, world-changing research in our labs and libraries, and a community where curiosity leads to risk-taking, experimenting feeds our learning, and the knowledge we generate extends from campus to the world.
Strengthening Academic Excellence
The essential truth of the FAS academic mission is our commitment to excellence. The FAS represents excellence across the broadest possible span of disciplines, from art history to economics to natural sciences to engineering. Our incomparable diversity of perspectives, knowledge, and expertise fuels the FAS’s ability to innovate and make high impact contributions to every field.
An investment in our long-term academic excellence builds our sense of community and sets the conditions for our extraordinary students and faculty to do their very best work.
“The freedom to follow your curiosity, to ask questions, to challenge the status quo, is at the heart of our academic mission. That fundamental pursuit of academic excellence is at the center of everything we do, and the opportunity for discovery that is so important to our students, their Harvard journey, and their impact in the world.”
Hopi Hoekstra
Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, C. Y. Chan Professor of Arts and Sciences, Xiaomeng Tong and Yu Chen Professor of Life Science
Moving Forward Together
The FAS can continue to benefit society through teaching and research by supporting the success of our faculty and students. To achieve this mission, the FAS must:
- Remain nimble, to seize opportunities to lead on key areas of global impact, from cutting-edge climate research to generative AI and civil discourse
- Deepen our interdisciplinarity, to create inclusive engagement across our many disciplines
- Nurture our sense of community and move forward together in conversation
Fostering a dynamic community focused on our academic mission is essential to recruiting and retaining the very best academic talent.
Sustaining the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Mission
The activities that are at the core of building a community of limitless possibility
Investing in Talent
The support that helps FAS leaders recruit the best talent from the academic market and sustain the next generation of citizen-leaders
Magnifying Impact
Support for signature and emerging priorities, including:
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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