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… , has a fair idea of what lies ahead for him on May 29, 2025, having been on the receiving end (he is Ph.D. ’03). In …
John S. Rosenberg , Max J. Krupnick
January-February 2024
January-February 2024 … issue …
Home Among Strangers
… I’d never met a member of the Class of 2024 or Class of 2025 in person, I lingered somewhere between the typical, …
Arts and Sciences: Strong Finances, and an Aging Faculty
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ dean’s annual report for the 2022-2023 academic year was the principal subject of the FAS meeting on November 7. Before presenting it, Hopi Hoekstra launched a meeting innovation—a faculty member’s “research minute” …
Football 2023: Harvard 17-Dartmouth 9
Harvard’s game against Dartmouth on Saturday evening was in keeping with the throwback nature of this season’s celebration of 150 years of Crimson football. There was the big Harvard Stadium Homecoming crowd, reminiscent of Harvard-Dartmouth games of …
A Fiscal Faustian Bargain
The nomination of Boston as the U.S. host city for the 2024 summer Olympics preceded much public discussion of the potential benefits and costs. Andrew Zimbalist, Ph.D. ’74, is perhaps the foremost analyst of public investments in sports facilities and …
Issue: July-August 2015
Collateral Damage
Even beyond the campuses divided by the October 7 Hamas attack and ensuing Israel-Gaza war, scorching political assaults on universities, and promising presidencies cut short, the academic year, now mercifully past, wounded higher education and the wider …
Issue: July-August 2024
Making the Call
Michael Fabiano , A.L.M. ’16, was never happy sticking to one field. After graduating from the Stevens Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and working in Bell Labs, he felt the tug of technology and switched his focus in …
Harvard Offers to Pay More Than Half of West Station Cost
… MassDOT had initially planned to finish West Station by 2025, but announced last month that it would be 2040 before …
Words of Wisdom at an Outdoor Baccalaureate
On Wednesday, May 24, at the annual Baccalaureate ceremony, Lawrence S. Bacow addressed the senior class that arrived the same year he began his service as Harvard’s president. “I find it fitting that we are gathered here today in these billowing robes …
Civil Discourse and Institutional Neutrality Task Forces
Alan M. Garber , interim president since January 2 , and John F. Manning, interim provost since March 14 , today announced a pair of University-wide working groups. The “Institutional Voice Working Group” will consider when and if Harvard should take …
Ebbing Endowments? Updated
F or the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported a 33.6 percent investment return on endowment assets , propelling an $11.3-billion gain in the endowment’s value, to a record $53.2 billion. Unsurprisingly, early reports …
Ivy League Cancels Spring Competition
On Thursday, the eight Ivy League presidents announced that no inter-conference athletic competition will take place this coming spring. This will be the fourth straight season of canceled competition, and the second spring season stifled by the ongoing …
Beyond the Crisis Du Jour
During a meeting on the morning of April 15—Good Friday, and before the first Passover seder he celebrates with family friends—President Lawrence S. Bacow said he was pursuing the “balance between managing the crisis du jour and what I call playing …
Arts and Sciences Dean Search Begins
J ust five days after she formally inaugurated the search for a successor School of Engineering and Applied Sciences dean, President-elect Claudine Gay and Provost Alan Garber formally launched the search for her successor as Faculty of Arts and Sciences …