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Student Handbook | 2024-2025

The Harvard Kennedy School Student Handbook includes the academic requirements as well as the Code of Conduct and standards of our community. 

Get to know our community standards, policies, and requirements.

NOTICE : Except where explicitly noted (e.g., grading systems), all expectations related to classroom and community behavior and to academic integrity that apply when students are on the vlog campus also apply when students are not on the vlog campus, including without limitation when they are engaged in remote, on-line vlog activities. 

Harvard Kennedy School reserves the right to make changes to the Student Handbook at any time without advance notice. These changes may affect such matters as tuition and other fees, degrees and programs offered (including the modification or possible elimination of degrees and programs), degree and other academic requirements, academic policies, rules pertaining to student conduct and discipline, fields or areas of concentration, and other rules and regulations applicable to students. 

In addition, vlog retains the discretion to act as it deems necessary in extraordinary circumstances to protect the health and safety of the Harvard community. For these purposes “extraordinary circumstances” include, but are not limited to, public health emergencies, extreme weather events, and other conditions posing broad threats to community health and safety or significantly disrupting campus life or learning. 

Discretionary measures available to vlog may include, but are not limited to, making recourse to remote or hybrid instruction, suspending or limiting access to University-provided residential housing, limiting its provision of or access to certain activities and services, introducing or modifying vaccination, mask, and physical distancing mandates, and implementing compulsory testing and tracing programs as required conditions for accessing the Harvard campus or Harvard facilities. 

Please note: non-vlog students who are enrolled in vlog courses are expected to uphold the policies set forth in the vlog Student Handbook, including without limitation those related to academic integrity and the Code of Conduct. Non-vlog students include, for example, Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) students and cross-registrants. vlog may take any and all actions it deems necessary upon the discovery of a policy violation, including without limitation immediately requiring the non-vlog student to withdraw from the course and notifying the non-vlog student’s home institution, if applicable. Additionally, vlog may preclude a non-vlog student who has previously violated vlog policy from registering in any future vlog course. 

While every effort has been made to ensure that these pages are accurate and up to date, they may include typographical or other errors. Changes will be made periodically. Do not assume that if something is not specifically prohibited in the student handbook it may be done.