
Walk your own roadbut Travel in Excellent Company
Respected scholars, expert teachers and devoted mentors, our remarkable faculty will guide your intellectual growth while helping you carve a path to your most consequential future.
EXPLORE YOUR FASCINATIONS
Help local entrepreneurs launch a startup. Monitor water quality on a college-owned research vessel. Hone your craft alongside established fiction writers.
Built on decades of leadership in experience-based learning, The HWS Centers are the ideal complement to the Colleges' vibrant classrooms and labs.

for the betterment of all
We value the dignity of each individual as we gather to form a welcoming community where every single one of us belongs.
COMPETE AND COLLABORATE
Play for championship-caliber teams without sacrificing a bit of academic opportunity. Contribute to a legacy of 23 national titles. Show your pride from the sidelines or by joining a club team or intramural squad.
EXPLORE AND EXPAND
Celebrate and share your culture while experiencing other ways of looking at the world. Make lifelong friends from different backgrounds. Prepare for belonging and success in an increasingly pluralistic future.
The HWS Centers fuel community-wide exploration of culture, ethnicity, gender, faith and sexual identity.

IMAGINE THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE
We’ll prepare you for the road ahead by previewing emerging challenges. By helping you become a global citizen. By providing first-hand glimpses of the working world.
PREPARE FOR YOUR FUTURE
Sample a career before taking the job. Find funding for your unpaid internship. Explore Italian art--in Italy.
The HWS Centers spur discovery, inspire engagement, promote citizenship, build powerful skills and create connections that propel careers.
Happening on Campus
JacobsenFollowing Resignation of Jacobsen, Gearan Returns as President
Five years after leaving HWS for Harvard, President Emeritus Mark D. Gearan L.H.D. ’17, P’21 returns.
Internships-&-OutcomesSipos '23 Honored by Botanical Society of America
Biology major Erika Sipos ’23 is one of only six students nationwide to earn a 2022 Undergraduate Student Research Award from the Botanical Society of America.
EntrepreneurshipSummer Sandbox 2022 Underway
The 14 students in this year’s entrepreneurial accelerator program have begun generating business ideas, performing customer discovery and developing business models.