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January-February 2022
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November-December 2021
November-December 2021 … issue …
Home Unaffordable Home
In 1995, a typical home in the Boston metropolitan area could be had for about $165,000. Today, the same home would cost more than $714,000. For someone taking out a conventional fixed-rate 30-year mortgage, the monthly carrying costs (assuming a 10 …
Issue: November-December 2024
The Coronavirus Campus
As Harvard leaders— and their higher-education peers nationwide—make early-summer decisions about the academic year to come, they confront extraordinary uncertainties, with little useful guidance. The Great Recession and after were financial crises, …
Issue: July-August 2020
September-October 2021
September-October 2021 … issue …
Has Harvard “Divested”?
P erhaps more than any other issue, questions about Harvard’s endowment investments in fossil-fuel production and advocacy in favor of divesting any such assets have dominated campus discussion during the past nine years, generating student activism and …
Brenda Tindal Named Inaugural Chief Campus Curator
After a national search, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has appointed Brenda Tindal the inaugural chief campus curator, beginning February 13. Tindal—who has been the executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) since May …
College Yield Drops 3 Percent During COVID-19
The College’s yield for the class of 2024 , or the share of admitted students who indicated that they will attend Harvard, has dropped from 84 percent on May 1 to 81 percent, according to a University announcement made today. Some students have deferred …
Graduation, Socially Distanced
There’s nothing like a global pandemic and economic meltdown to concentrate the mind and focus the joyous celebration of graduation on the very hard work at hand. And so it was with Harvard’s condensed, online University degree-conferral ceremony …
Issue: July-August 2020
July-August 2021
July-August 2021 … issue …
John Manning Appointed Interim Provost
Alan M. Garber, Harvard’s interim president since January 2 , today announced that John F. Manning, dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2017 , will serve as interim provost beginning March 14. Carter professor of general jurisprudence John C.P. …
Defending Civil Discourse on Campus
In early November 2015, an angry group of Yale students surrounded Nicholas Christakis M.D.'89, then master of Silliman residential college (and before then master of Pforzheimer House). Days earlier, his wife, Erika '86, a professor of childhood …
May-June 2021
May-June 2021 … issue …
The Legal Landscape for Climate Change
What is the U.S. legal landscape for addressing climate change? Cox professor of law Jody Freeman provided an overview of the dynamics among the three branches of federal government during a January 31 Zoom talk convened by the Office of the Vice Provost …
Somethings Old, Somethings New
Beyond doubt, Harvard knows how to stage awesome graduations—not just the spectacle of the Commencement exercises in Tercentenary Theatre, but the class days, House and school celebrations, and more. The 371 st Commencement, by the University tally, …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet