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Claudine Gay Announces Racial-Justice Initiatives
As protests about racial equity continue across the country, Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), announced a series of initiatives to address racial and ethnic equality—including faculty appointments and the addition of an …
Following Frederick Douglass
Ryan Doan-Nguyen ’25 always felt a particular affinity for the work and activism of Frederick Douglass, the prominent nineteenth-century abolitionist. So when Doan-Nguyen, a resident of Mather House, along with Nicholas Carrero ’23 [’25], of Dunster …
Overseer and Director Elected Candidates
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open from March 31 through May …
Issue: March-April 2023
Harvard Football’s Stolen Ivy Title
The Yale Bowl, Nov. 20, 2021. With 26 seconds remaining, Harvard trails Yale 31-27, but the Crimson is knocking at the Eli goal. It is third down and 10 from the Yale 12-yard-line and Harvard, having failed at two pass attempts in the end zone, has a …
Issue: January-February 2022
A Tale of Two Universities
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina famously begins, “All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.” To abuse that classic brutally, one might say that in flush times, all Ivy League schools seem similar, but at moments of …
Issue: March-April 2021
Documenting Climate Change Deception
Between 1977 and 2003, ExxonMobil scientists, and the executives to whom they reported, not only knew that climate change was real, they produced some of the best projections and models of global warming that existed at the time, even as their public …
Governance Reform from Below?
The last item discussed at the May 7 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting may, in time, rank first in importance: a motion, introduced by Conant University Professor Danielle Allen , brought forth with seven colleagues, that the faculty elect …
Endowment Gain—and Gaps
The University’s endowment was valued at $37.6 billion on last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2015—a gain of $1.2 billion (3.3 percent) from a year earlier—finally exceeding the peak value (not adjusted for inflation) realized in fiscal 2008, just before …
Issue: November-December 2015
The Day’s Events: Thursday, May 28
EVENTS FOR Thursday, May 28, include: Gates to Harvard Yard open at 6:45 A.M., and there will be a morning prayer service for graduating seniors at 8 A.M. in Memorial Church. Morning Exercises begin at 9:45 A.M. and include: honorary degree candidates …
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Higher Ed Obligations Julie Reuben’s important review of how brand-obsessed colleges are neglecting the needs and purpose of higher education lists several developments in higher ed (“ Ego U ,” March-April, page 24), but omits two that apply especially to …
Issue: May-June 2023
Harvard Reports Top Administrators’ and Investment Managers’ Pay
H arvard today released its 2019 tax filings, covering fiscal year 2020 (July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosure of senior …
Supreme Court to Hear Affirmative Action Appeals
T he Supreme Court announced this morning that it will hear Students for Fair Admissions’ (SFFA) appeal of its litigation opposing the consideration of race in Harvard’s undergraduate admissions process. In the formal language of the Court, it announced …
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Civil Rights, Reinterpreted Lincoln Caplan’s cover story about Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s re-assessment of the civil rights movement (“ Both Sides Now, ” January-February, page 29) gives us a wide-screen picture of the struggle over a far longer period, …
Issue: March-April 2022
Prize-Worthy Work, on Readers’ Behalf
Somewhat belatedly in this unusual academic year, we honor four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf during 2020, and confer a $1,000 honorarium on each. Dick Friedman Photograph courtesy of Dick Friedman Our …
Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer Relocates to University of Chicago
Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer ’85, Ph.D. ’92, who shared the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with two colleagues from MIT for their work on economic development and alleviating global …