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Convocation 2024: The New Crew Redux
When the Harvard College class of 2027 gathered in Tercentenary Theatre on September 3 a year ago , they met a new lineup of leaders: Claudine Gay, the University’s thirtieth president; Hopi Hoekstra, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean , whom Gay had …
Brevia
… for pandemic-affected applications to the classes of 2025 and 2026, will continue for the next four years (read …
Issue: March-April 2022
Harvard’s Standoff: The International Students
… —Donald J. Trump, presidential proclamation, June 4, 2025 “With no basis in law, the Proclamation denies … College v. Department of Homeland Security et al . June 5, 2025 “The vice president has opined that international …
Issue: July-August 2025
Government Revokes Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
… next week. Looking further ahead, it would affect the 2025-2026 academic year and prevent the University from … international students enrolled at Harvard during the 2024-2025 academic year, representing 27.3 percent of the student …
The Speeches 2022
“Save a Seat for Others” During his welcoming remarks at the 371st Commencement , on May 26, President Lawrence S. Bacow drew on pandemic-influenced conditions to send a message about the candidates’ future comportment, and truths not always associated …
Issue: July-August 2022
Back to Basics
… aid will cover the cost of tuition ($59,320 of the 2025-2026 term bill) and they will be evaluated individually … bill next year is $86,926, up a sharp 4.9 percent from 2024-2025.) For students whose family income exceeds $200,000 , “ …
Issue: May-June 2025
Harvard May Avoid FY 2021 Operating Loss Despite Pandemic
University reductions in expenses are likely to offset lost revenues and the increased costs imposed by the pandemic, suggesting that Harvard may avoid an overall operating loss for the fiscal year ending June 30. In a cautiously optimistic outlook shared …
President Lawrence S. Bacow to Step Down in 2023
Lawrence S. Bacow, the University’s twenty-ninth president , announced today that he would step down at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, concluding service that began in 2018 , when he succeeded Drew Gilpin Faust. The Announcements In a …
It’s Academic (and Other Harvard Concerns)
… aggressively increasing financial aid.) Updated March 6, 2025, 11:20 a.m. : FAS confirms that “structural deficit” … positions and other expense controls. ( Updated March 6, 2025, 8:00 a.m. : The Yale Daily News has reported that in … But it is known that budget guidance for fiscal year 2025-2026 was revised at the end of January, as the news …
Judge Orders NIH to Restore Grants
A federal judge this week ordered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to restore at least 800 terminated research grants that had been issued to institutions across the country. Calling the terminations “illegal” and “void” during a two-hour hearing …
New Overseers and HAA Directors Announced
On May 27 , the University announced the newly-elected members of the Board of Overseers—one of the University’s two governing boards—and directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The Overseers are: Mark A. Edwards ’82 of Brookline, …
Issue: July-August 2025
Harvard Responds to Protests
This academic year , campus protests focused on Israel, Gaza, and the continuing Middle East war have been smaller and less prominent than last year’s wave of protests that culminated in the spring 2024 encampment . The most significant protests of this …
News in Brief
… and more … 88564 … Brief News Summary Harvard Spring 2025 … 8491 … 1508 … 1509 … 1514 … 1520 … 8412 … News in …
Issue: March-April 2025
Baccalaureate Address 2023
Welcome to the Class of 2023—and welcome to soon-to-be graduates of Harvard College. Give yourself a round of applause. Well, many of you have noticed that this ceremony today has spiritual origins. If you’ve read your program, you know that it actually …
Reopening. . .Carefully
… for the class of 2024 last year, and then the class of 2025’s in the traditional way. The latter, still …
Issue: November-December 2021