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 "Beyond Haverford" visualization of paths highlights our graduates’ jobs and post-graduate education at 1, 5, 10, and 25-year milestones. This view of our alumni community illustrates the potential of a Haverford education.
Most Haverford graduates pursue a career in business and finance or education after graduation.
Taught by Zachary Oberfield, this political science course is designed to help students gain a deeper understanding of the politics of school choice and the efficacy of recent American education reforms, like charter schools and school vouchers.
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.
Students in Oberfield's class take field trips to local schools, including Lower Merion High School. See what other courses the Department of Political Science is offering this semester. Photo: Holden Blanco '17.
Charlie Marquardt ’16 was a Haverford first-year when he began a dogged quest to join the top ranks of the running world. Six years later, he finally reached his goal.
Read "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile" in the Fall 2018 issue of Haverford Magazine
Photo: Holden Blanco '17
As a core institutional principle, sustainability animates Haverford's broad mission of stewarding its financial, ethical, and curricular endowments in the interest of educating principled global citizens while safeguarding intergenerational equity as a perpetual institution.
Disturbed by how much castoff clothing goes into the trash stream, Griffin Vanze ’05 launched a company that makes womenswear out of recycled fabrics. Photo by Webb Chappell.
Oscar Wang '14, founder/CEO of College Together, recently started another new program that places ambitious college-age youth in paying jobs at some of Philly's top restaurants & prepares them for careers in the hospitality industry.
Read the "Tell Us More" feature from the Fall 2018 issue of Haverford Magazine
Photo by Holden Blanco '17
Plenary is a critical mechanism for student self-governance at Haverford College. Students gather to raise, discuss, and debate issues on campus. Resolutions passed by the Students’ Association are viewed as the will of the body, and Students’ Council is then tasked with the carrying out and upholding of any changes or initiatives.
Students' Council President Maurice Rippel '19 delivers the “State of the Ford” during Fall Plenary. Spring Plenary will be held February 17, 2019. Photo: Cole Sansom '19.
Haverfordians are regularly recognized for scholarly achievement through awards and fellowships such as Fulbright, Watson, Guggenheim, and the Nobel Prize.
A biology major while at Haverford, George Smith '63 won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and shares the award with two other scientists. Smith is the College's fourth alumni Nobel laureate and the second from the class of 1963. Photo courtesy of the University of Missouri.
This scrapbook compiled by Elliston P. Morris Jr., Class of 1922, features dance cards, programs from campus events, photos of faculty and fellow students, and newspaper clippings of Haverford athletic teams and world events, including the end of World War I and the first national election in which women could vote.
"In the Collection" highlights some of the rare and marvelous items that are part of Magill Library's Special Collections.
Photo: Patrick Montero
The club, founded in 2017 by Kaden St. Onge ’20, is designed to teach fundamental martial arts skills through the widely practiced and well-known style of Shotokan karate.
Students meet in the Swan Room of the GIAC for the Shotokan Karate class lead by Kaden St Onge '20. Photo: Olivia Wong '22
The Committee for Environmental Responsibility (CER) was created by the students, faculty, and staff of Haverford College, and reflects our socially responsible principles.
The now fully mature green roof on the Tritton Hall dormitory is one of three green roofs on campus. Photo: Patrick Montero
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.