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Harvard’s Finances in a Challenging Year
… a smaller 2.5 percent increase is authorized for fiscal 2025. (These measured increases smooth the lagging effect of … in new employees is expected to moderate in fiscal year 2025 and beyond. Employee benefits spending increased $62 …
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Conferring and Confirming
Like the rest of the world, Harvard was ready to move past the pandemic this spring—but, Janus-like, kept peering back, too. The University planned a full-dress 371st Commencement extravaganza for the class of 2022 on May 26, and a similar “Commencement …
Issue: July-August 2022
Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline
In the wake of the Israel-Palestine protests during the 2023-2024 academic year—especially the pro-Palestinian encampment in Harvard Yard during April and May—the University faced further challenges pertaining to its opaque and seemingly inconsistent …
The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes
For her as-told-to biography of the late artist Winfred Rembert, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South , Erin D. Kelly , Ph.D. ’95, was honored with a Pulitzer Prize on Monday (Rembert, who died in 2021, was named posthumously …
The Faculty’s Fears
The agenda for the April 1 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting was routine: voting on letter-grading of some required undergraduate courses , a program name change, an in camera discussion of a committee report on student discipline . But under the …
Harvard Slavery Descendants Program: What’s Next?
A month after the University laid off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program (HSRP), which for more than a year had been working to identify people enslaved by University affiliates and trace their descendants, Vice Provost for Special …
Harvard Settles Antisemitism Lawsuits
This story has been updated below with details of Harvard's rollout of its new antisemitism definition. At a December 5, 2023 hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Rep. Elise Stefanik ’06 (R-NY) asked Harvard President Claudine …
Katori Hall Wins 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Playwright Katori Hall , ART ’05, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in drama on Friday for The Hot Wing King , set in her hometown of Memphis. It follows a black gay couple and their extended family as they prepare recipes for competition in the city’s …
Convocation 2023: The New Crew
This year’s Convocation, conducted on Monday, a summery, humid Labor Day afternoon, of course welcomed new students: the 1,650 or so members of the College class of 2027 (a return to a normal, pre-pandemic-sized first-year Crimson cohort). But they were …
News in Brief
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Issue: January-February 2025
At Risk
… of “At Risk,” the 7 Ware Street column from the March-April 2025 issue (scheduled to be posted online February 14). That …
Issue: March-April 2025
Harvard University’s 374th Commencement Excercises
… DAY AND ALUMNI DAY Harvard University’s Class of 2025 Commencement Thursday, May 29, 2025 Harvard’s 374th Commencement exercises will be held on Thursday, May 29, 2025. For information regarding the schedule, tickets, and …
Issue: March-April 2025
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… allow car culture to do so much harm.W hen the March-April 2025 issue of the magazine arrived, I eagerly turned to the … Baker ‘72 Branford, Conn. The article in the March-April 2025 issue, “Safe Streets: Working to Curb Road Deaths,” … pursuing that topic here, I will only note that in January 2025 Harvard officially adopted the IHRA (International …
Issue: May-June 2025
News in Brief
Commencement—and Other Headliners— Actor-filmmaker Tom Hanks will be the guest speaker at Harvard’s Commencement exercises on the morning of May 25, succeeding a series of government and other leaders in recent years; for details see …
Issue: May-June 2023
A Shakeup at Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative
“Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.” That’s how Harvard historian Vincent Brown describes the University’s decision last Thursday, first reported by The Crimson , to abruptly lay off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance program (HSRP) and …