Admissions & Financial Aid
Explore Our Diverse Community
HGSE is committed to providing a welcoming environment for our diverse community, and we seek to promote and celebrate the diversity of thought and experience that our students bring to campus. The Office of Student Affairs is a resource for our graduate students to help make their experience at HGSE richer, safer, and more personally rewarding. Students take advantage of a broad array of outlets for discussions, events, and community-building activities. Whether it's a Trivia Night sponsored by the Student Government Association, a conference organized by the Voices for Africa, or a service project produced by students in a degree program, HGSE supports a vibrant life for all members of our community.
Events
- Student Research Conference – provides unique opportunity for graduate students to present completed research or works in progress on topics related to education
- Alumni of Color Conference – seeks to foster firm commitments to impact and improve the education of people of color
- Multicultural Fair – showcases the diversity of HGSE community through cultural displays, educational presentations, and performances
- Trivia Night – brings together teams of students, faculty, and staff to compete in their knowledge of random facts
Links
HGSE Multicultural Advisory Council (MAC)
The Multicultural Advisory Council (MAC) is a group of student representatives charged with facilitating diversity awareness in the HGSE Community. Convened by the Associate Dean for Enrollment and Student Services, the MAC administers the Dean's Diversity Innovation Fund and advises the Dean's Office on issues that impact HGSE's ability to sustain a community in which everyone can thrive.
Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus
Access and Disabilities Services
The Access and Disabilities Services office provides services and support with care and concern to each individual student. Our collaborative approach helps insure that students with disabilities are able to access and participate in the extraordinary array of opportunities available at HGSE.
Student Government Association

Admissions Office
111 Longfellow Hall
13 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-3414
617-496-3577
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Financial Aid Office
061 Longfellow Hall
13 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-3416
Fax: 617-496-0840
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Impact On Education
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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. |

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