In an administration where McLoughlin and Nelson formerly had the most direct contact with students, Hammonds may be forced to take on a more visible role. But she is trying to listen to a demographic that is not even showing up to be listened to.

Sporting bright yellow foam construction hats stamped with a penguin, residents of Quincy House marked Harvard’s symbolic transition from planning to the implementation stage of the College-wide House renovation project at Old Quincy’s groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday evening.

Harvard hopes to publicly launch its University-wide capital campaign in 2013. The campaign will likely aim to raise at least $6 billion, according to senior administrators and people with knowledge of the situation, which would likely make it the largest capital campaign ever run by an institution of higher education.

Harvard Planning and Project Management has constructed a full-scale model of what several rooms in revamped Old Quincy will look like when it opens in the fall of 2013.

The College will purchase common room furniture with which to furnish all Quincy House suites next fall in order to alleviate the need for summer storage space when the renovation of Old Quincy begins this June, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith announced Tuesday in a statement on the FAS website.

Although students in Quincy House will be spread out among five buildings next year as Old Quincy undergoes renovation, residents ...

Rising juniors in Quincy House will not have the option of taking senior standing in the House’s upcoming rooming lottery, in which sophomores, juniors, and seniors can be assigned to three residential buildings in Harvard Square.

As 2011 comes to an end, The Crimson looks back at the most important events at Harvard over the year.