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Harvard College Class of 2020 admissions report and term bill

A record applicant pool, a 5.2 percent admissions rate, and a $63,025 term bill

by John S. Rosenberg

Peter J. Gomes portrait installed at Harvard

Harvard installs a portrait of the late Reverend Peter J. Gomes.

by John S. Rosenberg

Graduate School of Design conference addresses racism in St. Louis

Urban planners and scholars talk racism and exclusion in St. Louis.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard hires Allston enterprise campus leader Steven D. Fessler

Harvard appoints Steven D. Fessler to direct development.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Overseer Election Begins

Campaigning gets under way, as ballots are mailed and candidates are endorsed.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard PBK literary exercises will feature Stephen Greenblatt and Robyn Schiff

Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa ceremony opens Commencement week on May 24.

Harvard alumna teaches humanities at West Point

Elizabeth D. Samet ’91 melds literature and leadership in her classes for the cadets.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies sponsors human-rights activist's talk

The Iranian human-rights activist and Nobel laureate talks, and listens.

by Lydialyle Gibson

BU Law Professor Khiara Bridges Teaches Critical Race Theory at Harvard Law

And why it is a subject of protest at Harvard Law School

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Updates on Harvard projects in Allston

In Allston, progress on the science and engineering complex, Life Lab, and renovated graduate-student housing 

by Laura Levis

Harvard Corporation to Drop Law School Shield Linked to Slavery

The announcement follows a Law School committee’s recommendation to abandon the shield. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Alumni coalition opposes Harvard Overseer slate

The campaign is joined as the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard organizes in response to petitioners.

by John S. Rosenberg