Professional Development

FAS is committed to creating and maintaining a workplace that is as diverse as our students and global population, where all may thrive professionally and personally. With that in mind, FAS HR has developed programs to foster diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at FAS.

Offered throughout the year, the Diversity Dialogues provide forums for the FAS community to build awareness around a range of issues related to diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Topics have included mental health and ethnicity, Black fatigue, and achieving greater workplace equity for LGBTQ+ employees.

FAS HR participates in the Administrative Fellowship Program, a Harvard sponsored program that seeks to attract talented and highly motivated young professionals, to mid-level administrative careers in higher education.

The FAS CareerCore Program is designed is to provide junior-level employees from historically marginalized backgrounds the tools to navigate career paths, build networks, develop self-leadership skills and learn what it means to bring your authentic self to work every day.

The FAS partners with Year Up, a national training program, to offer six-month internships to 18 to 24-year-old talented young adults, thus creating a pipeline of potential staff members from historically excluded communities.