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College Admits 13.9 Percent of Early Applicants
The College has admitted 13.9 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2024, up slightly from 13.4 percent admitted from that pool last year. Of the 6,424 students who applied early to the 2024 class, 895 were admitted. The numbers were 935 and …
The State of Harvard’s Arts and Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Hopi Hoekstra and colleagues issued their annual financial and other reports during an Election Day faculty meeting Tuesday afternoon, while also broaching other matters—among them, the desirability of students …
November-December 2021
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Off the Shelf
Imaginary Peaks , by Katie Ives ’99 (Mountaineers Books, $26.95). Riffing on the infamous Riesenstein Hoax (about an unscaleable, indeed imaginary, set of peaks in British Columbia), and drawing on her concentration in literature and her M.F.A., the …
Issue: January-February 2022
September-October 2021
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Brevia
Datar for Dean Srikant M. Datar, Dickinson professor of business administration, has been named dean of Harvard Business School, effective January 1, succeeding Nitin Nohria, who had led the school since 2010. Since joining the faculty in 1996, Datar has …
Issue: January-February 2021
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 …
July-August 2021
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At Home with Harvard: Great Legal Minds
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, …
What Does the $2.8B NCAA Settlement Mean for Harvard?
On Friday, June 6, California’s Judge Claudia Wilken approved a settlement in House v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) , ending a five-year legal saga and paving the way for colleges to directly pay student athletes. The House settlement …