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Back to the Bond Market
On March 5, the University placed a new offering of $750 million of taxable bonds, maturing in 2035 and priced to yield 4.609 percent. The new debt (the Series 2024A bonds) is Harvard’s first bond sale since the twin Series 2022 A and B borrowings , …
Supreme Court Bans Race-Conscious Admissions
T he Supreme Court, in a decision announced today, has banned race-conscious admissions at both public and private institutions of higher education, ruling that the practice violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Harvard, which …
Overseer and Elected Director 2024 Slates
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2024 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from April 1 through May 14, …
Football 2022: Harvard 35-Brown 28
Harvard football —it’s torture. After scraping by in an overtime thriller last week against unheralded Merrimack , the Crimson traveled to Providence on Saturday and on a sunny, breezy afternoon built a 28-point lead over Brown in the Ivy League opener …
Radcliffe Fellows for 2015-2016 Announced
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced its fellows for 2015-2016. The more than 50 men and women include creative artists, humanists, scientists, and social scientists, each pursuing “an ambitious individual project within the …
Harvard Confers Seven Honorary Degrees
The coronavirus pandemic has understandably overturned many beloved Harvard traditions. The celebratory hoopla of Commencement and reunions was reduced to an online graduation ceremony in 2020 . This year, with more time to prepare, the University has …
Harvard Magazine March-April 2024 Scavenger Hunt
Welcome to the March-April 2024 issue scavenger hunt! All clues can be solved with a copy of Harvard Magazine (and a cup of coffee or tea). For those without a print magazine who wish to partake, the online version of our latest issue can be used to solve …
Admissions after Affirmative Action
Nationwide , members of the class of 2028 are now engaged in their coursework, like so many preceding cohorts. But unlike their past half-century of predecessors at colleges and universities with selective admissions, they gained their places at their new …
Climate-Solutions Investments Exceed 1 Percent of Endowment Assets
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has released its annual report on progress toward a 2050 target of “net-zero” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with endowment investments and operations. As of June 30, 2023, the latest fiscal year for which data …
Missed Some of 2020’s Best Films?
Because many viewers missed out on 2020 films, the Brattle Theatre’s Ned Hinkle and Coolidge Corner Theater’s Beth Gilligan shared some recommendations: • Ghost Tropic: A Muslim cleaning woman sleeps through her subway stop and must get home on foot. …
Governing Games of Chance
Gambling goes back millennia, but today’s proliferation of mobile phones has transformed it into a nearly ubiquitous global commercial enterprise, with looming public health implications. “You’ve got your casino in your pocket 24-7,” observes Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2025
A New Voice
Ann Kim Ha, M.Arch. ’08, first started thinking about Walter the crocodile sometime in 2020. COVID-19 had shut down much of the world, and she was at home with her children, who were then two and four. “It was a very intense time,” she says. Work and …
Issue: May-June 2025
Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Pay
H arvard today released its 2020 tax filings, covering fiscal year 2021 (July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosure of senior …
College Admits 4.9 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2024
The College has admitted 1,980 of 40,248 applicants to the class of 2024 (895 of whom were admitted through early action in December). The 4.9 percent admit rate is up from 4.5 percent last year, reflecting an applicant pool down by about 3,000 students. …
Arts and Engineering
Despite a recent media focus on campus protests and changes in institutional leadership, substantive academic planning at Harvard is going on all the time, including curricular innovations and faculty growth in fields spanning both arts and sciences. …
Issue: March-April 2025