Welcome to the Harvard Alumni Association!

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), Harvard’s official University-wide alumni association, is a dues-free organization composed of all University students (yes, you!) and graduates. The HAA maintains and enhances a highly engaged, vibrant community of alumni and friends worldwide. The purpose of the HAA is to promote the welfare of Harvard University and to establish a mutually beneficial relationship between Harvard University and its alumni. This is your community, and your unique experiences and perspectives bring it to life. After you complete one semester at Harvard, you're a lifetime member! Learn more about the Harvard Alumni Association here. 

The College Alumni Programs office of the HAA serves more than 100,000 Harvard and Radcliffe College alumni and undergraduates. The office oversees and develops programming to preserve and maintain Harvard traditions and to create new opportunities to connect members of the Harvard community with one another and with the University.

Alumni volunteers have been a part of your Harvard experience from the beginning, whether that's been serving as admissions interviewers or marshaling and giving you your class pin at Convocation. We hope you take advantage of these additional opportunities to engage with your alumni community during your four years here. 

How can you connect with the Harvard alumni community?

Careers and Networking

• Connect to Harvard's more than 330,000 alumni in more than 200 countries through the HAA Alumni Directory. You can update your own profile and search for other alumni. Searches can be filtered by school, class year, and location, and you can select the Career Network option to find alumni who have volunteered to share their experiences with students. Alumni want to connect with you!
• Browse alumni profiles by occupation, industry, region, or concentration, and build your network through the LinkedIn Alumni Search Tool.
• Sign up for the Alumni Coffee Chats program in the fall to meet an alum in a brief, casual, small-group setting.
• Attend Global Networking Night which brings students and alumni from all of the Harvard schools together.
• Attend the Public Interested Conference to hear from inspiring speakers, interact with alumni, participate in engaging activities, and meet peers who share a passion for public service.
• Learn networking tips and tricks and meet alumni from your House in a casual setting at Networking 101, organized by House neighborhoods. An event for Cabot, Currier, Dudley, and Pforzheimer will be held on November 9 (register here) and an event for Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop will be held on November 10 (register here). 
• Learn more about how to make connections with alumni at the Office of Career Services website. 

Staying Engaged

• Join one of more than 200 Harvard Clubs, in more than 70 countries. Clubs are regional groups based on geography. 
• Join one of 55 Shared Interest Groups (SIGs). Shared Interest Groups are affinity-based communities (similar to student organizations).
• Connect with alumni from your student organization by sending them newsletters or inviting them to events. Contact the College Alumni Programs office for resources and more information. 
• Travel with other students and alumni through HAA trips during Spring Break.
• Gather with members of the Harvard community at one of the HAA's many events held worldwide.
• Follow @HarvardAlumni on Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to post images from the campus and your experiences and tag the accounts.
• Check out the Harvard Alumni Association and Harvard College Alumni pages on Facebook.
• Attend HAA info sessions to learn more!

Leadership Opportunities

• Help bond your Class through leadership on the Class Committee beginning your senior year as you develop resources and plan class-wide events throughout the year, culminating in Senior Week and Class Day.
• Help to advise the HAA on ways to best engage the undergraduate and alumni community, by serving on the Board of Directors Building Community Committee, which consists of both undergraduates and recent graduates.
• Work for the HAA up to and through Reunions and Commencement, gain leadership experience, and engage with alumni. Roles include Student Leads and Reunion Ambassadors, among others. 

The HAA works most closely with the senior class as they begin their transition into alumni life. You can expect additional alumni engagement opportunities during this time. Examples of 2019 programming include a study break for thesis-writing seniors with alumni who wrote a thesis, a reception with the HAA Board of Directors, and a lunch for class volunteers during Commencement Week with a reunion class.

Do you have questions or program ideas? Contact John Prince AB ’13, ALM ’18, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Engagement at the Harvard Alumni Association.