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President Alan M. Garber Welcoming Remarks and Convocation Address
As delivered Welcome, members of the Harvard College Class of 2028. Welcome from every continent save Antarctica. Welcome from each state in the Union—and from DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Like me, fifty-seven of you hail from the Land of …
November-December 2021
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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
Installation Academics
The half-dozen academic symposiums convened this morning as an intellectual prelude to Claudine Gay’s installation as Harvard’s thirtieth president covered a broad spectrum of disciplines, knit together by a pair of common themes. In her remarks last …
September-October 2021
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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 …
“A Game of Inches”
Last September , the members of the Harvard women’s basketball team stood in their locker room, anticipating a painful exercise. This wasn’t a drill or conditioning test; it was a ritual for the path ahead. Each player had to set an intention and then …
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 …