Each year the Office of Student Affairs and the Student Government Association (SGA) support a variety of student-initiated and student-directed organizations. Formal SGA recognition enables organizations to request funding from SGA via its funding proposal process. Groups wishing to request financial support from the SGA must complete the SGA recognition process yearly. This includes attendance at a training/information session with a member of the Office of Student Affairs and completion of recognition papers. The Student Organization Recognition Form and the GSE Student Organization Manual are available for students on my.gse.harvard.edu, the student intranet.

If you have questions about any student groups, contact Adonis Ferreira in the Office of Student Affairs (adonis_ferreira@gse.harvard.edu).

HGSE Student Organizations 2006-2007

African, Latino, Asian, and Native American Alliance (ALANA)
The African, Latino, Asian, and Native American Alliance strives to give voice and support to the people of color on HGSE’s campus. ALANA is an inclusive group that promotes political and social awareness and celebrates the diverse community at the School of Education.

aLTEReD
aLTEReD aims to promote alternative approaches to traditional education by providing practical and innovative resources to educators through a variety of opportunities.

Alumni of Color Conference
Spearheaded by a steering committee of students of color at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Alumni of Color Conference celebrates the work and accomplishments of Native American, Asian American, Latino, and African American graduates. Its goals are (1) to facilitate reflection, action, and change within individuals, institutions, and communities; (2) to garner a larger alumni and community base willing to support the conference initiatives as an effective and empowering body for change; and (3) create opportunities to tap into and benefit from the professional and personal skills and knowledge embodied in our vibrant community of students and alumni.

Alumni-Student Leadership Conference
To provide opportunities for developing student leaders (and recent graduates of HGSE) to network incubate ideas, collaborate, provide leadership resources to each other and transition from student leaders to leaders in their field(s) of interest.

The Appian
The Appian, the HGSE student-run newspaper, promotes productive change through knowledge, expression and dialogue. It seeks answers that advance the HGSE community’s thinking and provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni with a forum for sharing opinions, questions, and experiences.

Asian Pacific American Association (APAA)
APAA strives to unite Asian Pacific American students at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and raise greater awareness of Asian Pacific American issues through social, cultural, and political events.

Black Graduate Ministries
Black Graduate Ministries is a student-run organization that serves as a time of worship where Christians can gather together and fellowship with each other through weekly Bible study and through various forms of service. We are a body of believers from all denominations and faith, and we are united out of a love for God, a desire to grow spiritually, and a desire to foster a supportive community of believers. The group is geared towards the black Christian population on campus and off campus; however, all are welcome to join our body of faith.

Black Student Union
The Black Student Union at the Harvard Graduate School of Education serves to provide intellectual, emotional, and spiritual support for students of African and African-American heritage in the HGSE community. The organization also strives to create an atmosphere where these students can engage in critical dialogue on issues that impact the Black community. The organization promotes cultural diversity and awareness throughout the Harvard and Boston communities.

BRIDGE
BRIDGE was established on the understanding that education is not an isolated field. To flourish, education must integrate insights from other disciplines. Dedicated educators everywhere need a multidisciplinary set of tools which empowers them to provide a superior education for their students; business skills are a vital part of this toolset. BRIDGE’s goal is to provide GSE students with the space and opportunity to explore the use of these tools. We will accomplish this by organizing a variety of activities from lectures to career seminars. Through these activities, our members can broaden their perspectives and meet others who share the same objectives.

Chinese Student Association
The Chinese Student Association seeks to strengthen unity among students of Chinese heritage and those who have an interest in Chinese affairs. It strives to promote mutual support among its members. It seeks to enrich its members’ experience by sharing their interests, ideas, knowledge, and talents with other individuals and organizations within and outside the School of Education. While pursuing Chinese-related issues and interests academically, culturally or socially, CSA inspires its members in search of their role and identity in an era of immense cultural and political changes.

Christian Fellowship
The HGSE Christian Fellowship is part of a university-wide community of Harvard students, faculty, staff, and friends who gather for worship, prayer, study, service, and to learn together the meaning of the gospel for our lives in the academy and in our future work.

Comunidad Latina
The mission of Comunidad Latina is to provide academic, social, and cultural support to members of the Latino community at HGSE and to educate the HGSE community about issues regarding Latinos.

Deaf Exploration and Awareness Forum (DEAF)
The Deaf Exploration and Awareness Forum brings together members of the HGSE community interested in the exploration of Deaf-related issues and raising awareness about them at Harvard. The Deaf culture and community are explored through literature, research, and connections to the greater Boston, national, and international communities.

EdMedia: HGSE’s Educational Media Student Interest Group
EdMedia aims to serve as a resource to Harvard University students interested in learning about existing and emerging educational media forms. We will host screenings of innovative and instructional educational television programs, films, and web-based projects. We plan to invite producers and designers of these programs to share their thoughts on the educational media production process and industry. Additionally, we will provide practical training and workshops in educational media production skills.

Education for Global Citizenship
Education for Global Citizenship is an HGSE student group that is committed to raising awareness about the importance of education for responsible global citizenship. The goals of the group are to understand how education can foster global citizenship, cultural understanding, tolerance, and respect of diversity and action for social change. The group aims to participate in events, projects and research that promote these objectives.

Educational Policy and Management Student Association
The Education Policy and Management Student Association strives to build community among EPM students in the areas of sociability, professional development, and community awareness. The EPMSA will build togetherness within the cohort, as well as with the HGSE students as a whole. The EPMSA will develop professional relationships essential to future career paths.

English Language Learners in Special Education Study Group (ELLSES)
The formation of an HGSE student group studying English Language Learners in Special Education (ELLSE) was stimulated by increased student interest in this area and the lack of faculty and scholars addressing these issues at HGSE. We hope to initiate and facilitate dialogues between researchers and practitioners in the field of English language learners (ELL) in Special Education through study of critical literature in the area and inviting student and faculty speakers on the topic.

Harvard Women’s Leadership Collective
The Harvard Women’s Leadership Collective is a cross-campus community of graduate students committed to women’s education, advancement, and leadership, both in our own academic and professional lives, as well as in the global scope of our 21st century world. Our goal is to connect women to relevant opportunities and resources across the university, bring speakers to campus to talk about the critical importance of women’s education and leadership globally, and to form “a space of our own” at Harvard in which to share our ideas, experiences, and energies.

HGSE Actors’ Guild
The Actors’ Guild seeks to use the diverse talents of GSE’s student body to write and produce a play dealing in some way with one of many themes in the field of education, to be performed in the spring of 2007 or before graduation.

HGSE College Democrats
To engage students in relevant issues concerning politics and the Democratic Party. To support students in learning more about the intersection between education, policy, and politics.

Higher Education Student Association (HESA)
The HGSE Higher Education Student Association (HESA) supports the academic, professional and personal interests of its members. It strives to build connections between and awareness of higher education issues in the HGSE and Harvard communities and the profession at large.

Improv for Educators
Improv for Educators seeks to identify and utilize the connection between improvised theater and teaching with the hope of bettering our teaching practice. Through regular improve practice the members endeavor to improve verbal and non-verbal communication, listening skills, teamwork, and comfort level in the classroom.

Inner Action: A Group For Examining Privilege In All Its Diverse Forms
Inner Action is a group dedicated to supporting and facilitating community-wide discussions of privilege, diversity, identity, and other related topics, and how these topics effect our work as educators. This group is open to people of all ages, races, socio-economic statuses, sexual orientations, religions, levels of physical ability, and other personal identities. Diverse perspectives and experiences are invited and welcomed.

International Development and Education Association (IDEA)
International Development and Education Association (IDEA) is a student organization at Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on the intersection of education and development in a global context. It has three major objectives: a) to raise awareness of pertinent global development and education issues within and outside the HGSE community; b) to organize intellectual events that complement the academic focus of international education policy; and c) to build alliances with HGSE alumni from around the world as well as with organizations and faculty across the university.

Korean Students Association (KSA)
The HGSE Korean Student Association represents all Korean students in HGSE. We promote Korean culture to the HGSE community through fun activities. We also want to learn about the condition of education in Korea by inviting speakers in the field and discussing relevant issues. We provide a supportive network of Korean students in GSE and also reach out to build relationships with other Korean student associations at Harvard. We hope that KSA will enhance companionship among Korean students.

Latin America and Caribbean Education Network (LACE)
The LACE network seeks to foster and participate in the discussion of education issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through sponsorship of speakers with unique experiences, we aim to raise awareness and increase understanding of the current conditions, challenges, and alternatives for education in the region, at HGSE, other schools at Harvard, and the greater community. Additionally, we seek to model democratic pedagogy and constructivist approaches to facilitate real intellectual inquiry and open discussion.

Longfellow Society
The Longfellow Society serves as a vehicle for HGSE students to share, assist, and collaborate with each other’s extra-curricular, creative writing endeavors.

Migraine Support Group
The purpose of the Migraine Support Group is to create a community for Harvard students who have chronic headaches and other symptoms associated with migraine disease.

Part-Timer Student Association
The Part-Time Student Association strives to help part-time students connect through a variety of social events through the year such as happy hours, daytime family excursions, and other activities outside normal working hours. We provide resources to help our fellow part-timers…access valuable administrative information and requirements.

Promoting Respect, Inclusion, and Diversity in Education (PRIDE)
The goals of PRIDE are to provide a forum for the discussion of diversity and inclusion issues in education, as well as serve the social, political, and career needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) members of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Reading Education and Language (REAL)
REAL will provide a forum to communicate with a network of students and faculty members about research issues and professional opportunities related to language and literacy development.

School Leadership Student Group
The School Leadership Student Association aims to enrich students’ lives outside the classroom through community service, relevant speakers, and social events. We welcome students from other programs who have an interest in school leadership.

Singapore and Malaysia Student Association
The organization aims to bring together Singaporean and Malaysian students at HGSE, serve as a contact point for incoming/prospective Singaporean and Malaysian students, raise awareness of Singapore and Malaysia among the HGSE community, organize social and academic activities that promote the above objectives, and build alliances with other HGSE student organizations and alumni.

Student Association of Learning and Teaching (SALT)
SALT seeks to foster the development of community within the Learning and Teaching Program, the Graduate School of Education as a whole, and the greater Cambridge area. We facilitate professional discussion of learning and teaching issues in forums public and private and seek to create personal and technical support structures for HGSE students on academic and social levels.

Student Coalition for Justice at HGSE
The purpose of the Student Coalition for Justice at HGSE is to promote awareness of the positive effects of integration in education and the existing racial inequality in schools and society.

Technology, Innovation, and Education Student Association (TIESO)
The Technology, Innovation, and Education Student Organization aims to do the following: foster social and professional relationships between peers, faculty, and the community; support each other academically, emotionally and socially throughout the year; provide ourselves as technological resources to the Ed School and larger community; act as advocates for technological innovation and education; organize events and speakers that enrich the Ed School and beyond.

Urban Education Service Coalition
The Urban Education Service Coalition seeks to further the goals of urban education through community activism, teacher development, recruitment, and activities to develop urban education in the HGSE community.

Voices for Africa
Voices for Africa is a HGSE student group that is committed to raising awareness of the pressing issues in African education by increasing the exposure of African and Africanist scholars, educators, and policy makers.