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An Academic Worker’s Union?
In early February, non-tenure-track faculty and other academic staff members launched an effort to form a union, calling for higher wages, better job security, and stronger workplace protections regarding issues like safety and harassment. “We’re fighting …
Issue: May-June 2023
Reporting on Your Behalf
Dear Readers , The pandemic has changed all of us—and even a venerable institution like Harvard, as we reported during this most unusual of Commencement seasons. Yes, the Class of 2022 enjoyed a traditional, in-person Commencement morning celebration …
March-April 2024
March-April 2024 … issue …
Deval L. Patrick Named 2015 Commencement Speaker
Deval L. Patrick ’78, J.D. ’82, the seventy-first governor of Massachusetts, who completed his second term last month, will be the principal speaker at Harvard’s 364th Commencement on Thursday, May 28, the University announced today. Calling Patrick “an …
Behind the Scenes: Chance reunion between old chums
Former deputy editor Craig Lambert reflects on his history with Stephen Bergman and what it’s like to reunite after 39 years. Writing my March-April feature profile “ Diagnosis by Fiction ,” on novelist Stephen Bergman ’66, M.D. ’73, was an enjoyable …
Provocative Politician
In 2021 , when Lee Junseok ’07 was elected chairman of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP)—becoming, at 36, the youngest-ever leader of a major party in the country—some likened his ascent to that of another controversial figure on the …
Issue: November-December 2024
Harvard’s Financial Outlook
The University ’s severely challenging academic year —marked by a community divided over the Middle East war, an abrupt change of presidents, a pro-Palestinian encampment that spawned protests at Commencement —ended formally June 30. That also concluded …
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tidies Up Pandemic and Single-Gender Policies
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) cleared up its remaining routine tasks during this most non-routine of years at its last regular meeting of the academic year on Tuesday afternoon. Many of the prior meetings had been largely given over to hearing …
Football 2022: Holy Cross 30-Harvard 21
If you’re going to lose a football game, make it a non-league game against a superior team. That, at least, is the theory. But that does not necessarily lessen the sting of Harvard’s 30-21 defeat to Holy Cross of the Patriot League Saturday at the …
Harvard Football: New Season, New Coach
The winter , spring, and summer of our discontent having concluded, Harvard’s 2024 football season kicks off this Saturday—appropriately enough, the first day of autumn—at noon ET in Harvard Stadium against Stetson. (The game will be streamed on ESPN+, …
Presiding during the Pandemic
During a conversation on December 16, just as the first half of academic year 2021-2022 concluded, President Lawrence S. Bacow assessed the necessarily dual nature of his administration. The pandemic, he acknowledged, had overshadowed life since January …
Issue: March-April 2022
Smooth Start
Leaders of this and other campuses wracked by turmoil during the 2023-2024 academic year following the Hamas attack on Israel and resulting war naturally approached this fall term warily. Would pro-Palestinian protestors again set up encampments, or …
Issue: November-December 2024
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
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, …
Harvard Haves and Have-Nots
Anthony Abraham Jack has written an important, passionate analysis of the conditions and challenges facing students from lower-income families and underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds at Harvard—and by extension, at other elite, …