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About
HGSE is part of Harvard University — one of the world’s leading institutions of learning. While our community is global, our thriving campus hub is located along Appian Way in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a vibrant college town just across the Charles River from historic and dynamic Boston. If you plan to visit our campus, this virtual tour and our tips for getting to campus will help you prepare.
The Monroe C. Gutman Library is the Education Library at Harvard University and the academic and social hub of HGSE. Here, students have access to unparalleled university-wide resources, various study spaces, and lounge areas.
In addition to the library's main desk, books, and periodicals, Gutman houses the Commons Cafe, the Gutman Gallery, Student Affairs, administrative and faculty offices, classroom space, Information Technology, and the Cheng Yu Tung Education Innovation Studio — a hands-on Makerspace. It also holds convenings, conferences, and other special events in its garden-level Gutman Conference Center.
The historic Longfellow Hall, named for the daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is central to the HGSE academic experience.
This building features classrooms, offices, and meeting spaces, including Askwith Lecture Hall on the first floor, which hosts Askwith Education Forums and other schoolwide events featuring prominent speakers on pressing topics in education. Eliot Lyman Room on the second floor hosts smaller events, workshops, and presentations.
A number of administrative offices, including Registration, Communications and Engagement, Professional Education at HGSE, and the Dean’s Office, are located within Longfellow Hall.
Larsen Hall is the site of faculty and administrative offices, classrooms, and seminar spaces. The building was named in 1965 for Harvard alumnus Roy E. Larsen, a former chairman of Time magazine and a major voice in educational reform.
Larsen is home to an 80-seat, tiered classroom with adjacent seating areas on the first floor, as well as a 50-seat, tiered classroom and breakout space on the second floor. On warm days, HGSE students, staff, and faculty make use of the ample outdoor seating around the Larsen exterior for class discussions, lunch meet-ups, and advising conversations.