Senior Common Room

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Within an undergraduate college, the Senior Common Room (often abbreviated to SCR) consists of the academic officers who hold a degree above the undergraduate degree. The term can refer to both actual persons (the scholars/faculty) and the room where they occasionally hold meetings. Always, this consists of any Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, Preceptors, Lecturers, and Fellows who hold a Doctoral degree or a Professional Degree. In many cases it also consists of the Tutors and Teaching Fellows (TFs) or Teaching Assistants (TAs) who hold a Master's Degree and who teach undergraduates.

The term "Senior Common Room" comes from its long-standing use at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities and is now used at a variety of tertiary educational institutions in the Anglophone world. The term stands in contrast to Junior Common Room (for undergraduates) and Middle Common Room (for graduate students). At Cambridge, SCR is often said to stand for Senior Combination Room.

At each of the undergraduate Houses of Harvard University, the "Senior Common Room" encompasses all faculty members and graduate students (designated "tutors") resident at or affiliated with the House. Each house also has a living room known as the "Senior Common Room," or SCR, which is for the exclusive use of members of the SCR. This is in contrast to a "Junior Common Room," or JCR, which is generally available for all undergraduates to use.

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