About HGSE
Campus & Facilities
The Campus
HGSE is located on Appian Way in the heart of Harvard Square. The campus consists of several buildings and is in close proximity to most other Harvard Schools and an abundance of dining and shopping options.
Classrooms
HGSE has 19 classrooms for classes of all sizes. Most classrooms are fully equipped to provide faculty with presentation requirements, from audio and video projection to audio and video capture.
Multimedia Development Lab
The multimedia development lab provides students and faculty with computers set up for a wide variety of media production, including audio and video editing, DVD production, web development, and other applications that might be needed for media-enhanced projects.
Public Computers
Over 100 public PC workstations, located in Gutman Library and elsewhere on campus, are available to the HGSE community. Additionally, students may use PCs and Macs in the General Computing Area (GCA), located on the third floor of Gutman Library, and wireless connectivity is available throughout most of the HGSE campus.
Dubbing Room
In this self-service dubbing room, located on the third floor of Gutman Library, faculty, staff, and students can convert video and audio from one file format to another (such as VHS or mini DV to DVD, analog audio to digital audio, and so on).
Videoconference Facilities
HGSE features several spaces to conduct high-end videoconferences. Faculty host “virtual guest speakers” in which professionals from various fields visit a class session remotely via a videoconference.
Conference Rooms and Conference Center
HGSE has 26 conference rooms, including a full-service conference center that can be rented by the public for meetings and events.
Conroy Commons
Enjoy breakfast, lunch, or a snack at Conroy Commons in Longfellow Hall. Breakfast offers baked goods, fresh fruit, cereals, breakfast sandwiches, fresh-brewed coffee, and more. At lunch there is a choice of soups, salad bar, made-to-order sandwiches, hot entrees, and a variety of to-go snack items.
Impact On Education
.jpg) | T.J. Martinez, Ed.M.'08"For kids [and] their parents who are in cycles of poverty, violence, and even abuse, [we see] as we come to know their stories. This [opportunity] is something that will break that." -- T.J. Martinez, Cristo Rey Jesuit School. |
 | Noel Gomez, Ed.M.'06Some have been incarcerated, others are one strike shy of life in prison. College was the last place any of them expected to end up. But it's the one place that Noel Gomez, Ed.M.'06, wants to keep them. |
.jpg) | Raygine DiAquoiShe was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended public schools until the sixth grade when her parents, wanting her to have every opportunity, sent her to the Hewitt School, a private school for girls on the Upper East Side. |
.jpg) | Shimon Waronker, Ed.D. CandidateWhen Waronker walked into J.H.S. 022 in the South Bronx, N.Y. to become its seventh principal in two years, he had reason to be worried. Instead, he was determined to take back the school, starting with the gangs. |
