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...Common Rooms at Harvard never seem to feel like doing much of anything for students. Among other things, the recently released Report on Harvard House Renewal expressed widespread student dissatisfaction or confusion with the Senior Common Room as a component of House life. Ostensibly, every House’s SCR is designed to promote meaningful student-faculty interaction by introducing students to distinguished academics and other prominent members of the Harvard community. But, in many Houses, the SCR remains both physically and academically inaccessible...
...Adding to the confusion, the term “Senior Common Room” can be used to refer to both a physical space in the House and the group of distinguished academics and professionals who comprise the membership of a House’s SCR. As the College moves forward in its first comprehensive renovation program in 26 years, it should aggressively address this deficiency in the House system. The SCR currently seems to be suffering from a severe case of mission drift: It is unclear whether an SCR is supposed to serve as a source of academic advising...
...Harvard’s new House system, the SCR should be more integrated into undergraduate life. Students should be explicitly introduced to the SCR when they join a House in March of their freshman year. The concept of an SCR should be explained to them, and resources (whether physical or electronic) should be provided to them in order to help them build lasting relationships with House tutors and sponsored academics...
...wonderful quirks that has developed over time and the development of a unique House culture at every residence. Take, for example, Eliot House’s beloved spring formal or Dunster House’s bizarre side gate. But this diversity does not seem to extend to the SCR: All 12 residential Houses seem to have an exclusionary and enigmatic policy regarding this supposedly “common” physical space. Kirkland House, for example, only allows students to use the space by appointment, while Winthrop and Eliot are even more restrictive. After renovations, the SCR should be more...
...history spanning two centuries and an ocean, the Senior Common Room—an idea originally conceived at British universities—is in need of an extensive reevaluation.According to the Report on Harvard House Renewal, which College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds released to the public last Tuesday, the SCR is an “outdated” and disconnected component of House life.Topping the list of 19 proposed recommendations in the report is resolving why the SCR “is not working well for current students and faculty.”Undergraduates, resident tutors, House Masters, and SCR...