The Harvard Alumni Association maintains and enhances a highly engaged, vibrant community of alumni and friends worldwide. This is your community, today and after you graduate, and your unique experiences and perspectives bring it to life. After you complete one semester at Harvard, you're a lifetime member!
The College Alumni Programs office of the HAA serves more than 100,000 Harvard and Radcliffe College alumni and undergraduates. It 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 the University.
We hope you take advantage of these opportunities to engage with your alumni community.
Careers and Networking
- Connect with more than 420,000 alumni through the HAA Alumni Directory You can update your own profile and search for other alumni. Searches can be filtered by school, class year, or location, and you can select the Career Network option to find alumni who have volunteered to share their experiences with you.
- Attend Global Networking Night with alumni from all Harvard schools.
- Attend the Public Interested Conference and the Creative Careers Conference to hear from inspiring speakers, interact with alumni, participate in engaging activities, and meet peers who share a passion for public service and the arts.
- Learn networking tips and tricks and meet alumni in a casual setting at HAA Networking 101.
- Reach out to alumni to schedule an Alumni Coffee Chat to learn more about their experiences.
- View jobs, internships, and projects for students posted by alumni at Crimson Careers, managed by the Mignone Center for Career Success.
- Connect with alumni for a career chat, resume review, or mock interview through Firsthand Advisors, managed by the Mignone Center for Career Success.
Engagement
- Join one of nearly 200 Harvard Clubs, which are regionally-based groups.
- Join one of nearly 60 Shared Interest Groups, which 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 haa_collegealumniprograms@harvard.edu for more information.
- Gather with members of the Harvard community at one of the HAA's many events held worldwide
- Follow @HarvardAlumni and @HarvardCollegeAlumni on 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 an HAA 101 info session to learn more!
- Reflect on your sophomore year and junior year experiences and engage with select alumni classes through Sophomore Class Color Connect and Junior Class Families.
- Take a writing break and connect with alumni thesis writers during your senior year winter break at the Senior Thesis Study Break Dinner.
Leadership
- 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 advise the HAA on ways to best engage the undergraduate and alumni community and promote, lead, and review events and programs by serving on the HAA Student-Alumni Engagement Committee. Contact haa_collegealumniprograms@harvard.edu for more information.
- Work with the HAA in the spring semester through Reunions in support of Senior Week, Commencement Week, and Reunions and Harvard Alumni Day as an HAA Student Lead Ambassador. Contact haa_collegealumniprograms@harvard.edu for more information.
Do you have questions or program ideas? Contact John Prince AB ’13, ALM ’18, Associate Director of College Alumni Programs at the Harvard Alumni Association.