Past Projects Archive

The Longwood Medical Area (LMA) instructional design and technology staff are joining forces with Digital Accessibility Services to standardize and promote accessibility best practices for Harvard courses taught in the Canvas learning management system.

Where can I find a listing of all upcoming events at Harvard? It’s a question many in the community ask, but a centralized view of all University events does not exist.

AV over IP (Audio Visual over Internet Protocol) allows for audio, video and control signals to be transmitted, monitored and controlled via the internet.

The mission of the project is to improve documentation efforts around the university so that we are training new staff and highlighting our best practices using new technology.

Black Staff Caucus is the first group of its kind to focus specifically on Black staff at the Harvard Longwood Campus (HLC). 

The Harvard Caregivers Support Network is a project striving to collate and expand the supports and resources the diverse caregivers of our University need.

The Staff Art Show, having increased belonging and connection through sharing the creative sides of Harvard staff, seeks to increase its impact through hosting more events, improving the existing show’s website and publicity, and providing installation...

Many scientific research projects have evolved to include a team of different collaborators in specialized disciplines. 

The Whole Me Campaign aims to educate individuals and the broader Harvard community about the disability experience, including invisible disabilities and intersectional needs.

Art immersion is an emerging and innovative discipline linked to improved psychological health, cognitive abilities, creativity, and overall wellbeing.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic Harvard has had to rethink the way we work.  With the success of remote work over the past year, and the expectation that remote work will continue at some level for the foreseeable future, comes a new need for dynamic...

Disability is an often overlooked, misunderstood, and underdiscussed aspect of diversity, equity, and inclusion. An estimated 20% of the Harvard community would identify as having a disability of some kind. 

The goal of the project is to create a novel Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Antiracism (DEI+A) strategic framework as part of the overall Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) Balanced Scorecard that is currently being developed.

As hybrid learning becomes more normalized and utilized in today’s world, Harvard University will not only be expected to offer opportunities for blended collaboration, but to be at the forefront of this changing technological landscape.

This program proposes the creation of a central Supplier Diversity and Inclusion tool containing certified diverse suppliers, searchable and filterable by diversity type, service/goods, ethnicity and other criteria required by the purchasing community.

We will create a process for designing, developing, and deploying Active Learning Kits to engage with students on both SEAS campuses in Cambridge and Allston.

A resource to help connect the programs, centers, and people on Harvard’s campus who are working to make a positive social impact in communities around the world.

We believe in a community of connected employees.  We strive to create a workplace that joyfully inspires participation, inclusion, safety, curiosity, innovation and a sense of purpose and belonging.

In the spirit of inclusion and belonging, best practice is to host accessible events, including but not limited to providing effective communication services such as American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and live captioning (CART).

The Gender Inclusive Mapping project for Harvard University seeks to ensure that all Harvard community members and guests, including those who are transgender, gender non-binary, and gender nonconforming, have accurate and inclusive means of locating rest...

Access to private, secure, comfortable rooms for all nursing parents to continue balancing their breastfeeding and working schedules is a goal that Harvard encourages.

We seek to create a Harvard College Central Calendar as a unified, interactive resource with key dates and events across Harvard for undergraduate students

We endeavor to transform Harvard University into a national leader of civic engagement by increasing voter registration and participation rates.

We will centralize these opportunities through the creation of a “job board” website, along with forms, templates, best practices, procedures, and assessments.

Every year academic institutions nationwide attempt to revitalize their campus green spaces by reseeding grasses, supplying fertilizer, applying pesticides/herbicides, etc.

Harvard’s history in Allston is a compelling story of transformation.

We plan to create an interactive exhibition in a public space that invites all members of the community to offer their perspective about their own experience of Belonging at Harvard. 

We envision a yearly conference that would gather Diversity Officers, staff members with diversity duties, diversity task forces, employee resource groups, and other diversity focused people together to share their work and build networks.

The Employee Resource Groups for Harvard faculty and staff plan to meaningfully expand outreach efforts to provide opportunities to hundreds of current and future Harvard employees University-wide.

The Harvard Health Innovation Network (HHIN) is comprised of 10+ different health care entrepreneurship and innovation organizations across Harvard. 

We want to create better access to our policies. We have identified and inventoried 160 policies* across the University. 

Harvard IDEAs is a cultural competency training that moves beyond preparing individuals to “work in” an inclusive environment. It prepares individuals to “actively contribute to” an inclusive environment.

The fundamental goal of the HarvardWIT mentoring program is to increase the retention and promotion of women in IT roles across Harvard, providing more gender diversity to this staff population.

Our intent is to provide students with a simple way to record their name in my.harvard and make the recording available in class rosters and to advisors. 

To develop a sustainable and shareable system to track accessibility in the procurement system.

To streamline the inventory process at a University level by volunteering departments from a few schools to pilot an asset tracking technology program.

To improve the way that external institution data is collected and stored by Admissions Offices across Harvard and the my.Harvard system.

To answer the question, “What chemical inventory management technology will provide the best combination of operational efficiency, safety, compliance, sustainability, and benefit to university stakeholders, and how should such a system be implemented?”...

To develop the start toward a shared pathway to more efficient use of office space and new ways of working on the Harvard campus.

To save employees time and reduce errors throughout the University by creating macros that automate routine tasks in Excel.

To design a uniquely ‘One Harvard’ approach to adoption of administrative innovations that is based on insights from behavioral economics and ‘nudge’ research.

To make Commencement Week activities more secure and sustainable with a transition from paper to digital tickets.

Harvard currently receives 100,000+ mail returns per year, which equates to postage fees, staff time to process, and lost opportunity cost with information not reaching intended audiences.

Our innovation is to create an automated, efficient, and flexible computer tool for these allocation challenges.

In order to successfully improve Harvard’s broader efforts toward digital accessibility, a greater number of staff members must be engaged in testing and improving technology systems, websites, and other electronic products.

The team at CMES is seeking to correct the challenge of supporting Harvard international scholarly travel during this time of global uncertainty, by finding ways to rapidly and effectively communicate with travelers in a crisis.

While Harvard University has the unique benefit of eight separate professional Schools that each offer innovative executive education programming, there is no current administrative mechanism that leverages the combined advantages of all Schools’...

The FSAN aims to contribute to the educational mission of Harvard through sharing knowledge among managers of faculty-support staff, developing best practices for managers and staff, and learning from and sharing with peers.

Create a plan for a comprehensive and sustainable University financial training program for the University community. The accuracy of financial information plays a critical role at the University leading to a need for a comprehensive financial training...

A strong and growing body of research from Harvard faculty and other scientists has shown that some of the most effective interventions for enhancing the health, productivity and well-being of people in the built environment is through healthier building...

An initial group of individuals from eleven offices will pilot an Analytics Staff Consortium (ASC) for Harvard staff whose work involves analytics.