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From the Basket to the Beach
In June , Christine Mansour ’15 stepped onto the sand for Team USA at the beach handball world championships in Greece and noticed Denmark was implementing a punishing full-court press. Recalling her time on the women’s basketball team, Mansour made a …
“Find Your Way to Heal This World”
At this year’s most unusual Freshman Convocation—broadcast on YouTube, with students living on campus instructed to “watch in your room/suite but…not gather in groups to watch”—dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana urged students to “commit to wearing a …
Will Spring Education Plans Slip?
As the coronavirus pandemic threatens public health and overwhelms hospitals around the country, University leaders sent a “sobering” note to the community today, noting that although “some of our Schools have announced that they intend to welcome back …
An Expansive Vision for the Future of Teaching and Learning
The Harvard Future of Teaching and Learning Task Force (FTL), organized last year to assess what the University and its faculty members had learned from the pandemic pivot to remote instruction in the spring of 2020 and through the following academic …
New Institutional Master Plan Unveiled
After 18 months of planning and community discussions, the University unveiled a new 10-year Institutional Master Plan Notification Form (IMPNF) at the Harvard-Allston task force meeting on October 11, enumerating projects that administrators deemed to …
Change at the Top
Philip W. Lovejoy, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) since July 2014, will retire at the end of this year, concluding a quarter-century of Harvard service. The February announcement of his plans ensures a smooth introduction of …
Issue: May-June 2022
Harvard University's 369th Commencement Excercises
Thursday, May 28, 2020 commencement.harvard.edu Since 1642, when just nine students graduated, Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still observed in the University. Degree candidates with …
Issue: March-April 2020
A Vision for Post-Pandemic Harvard
As a president twice, and adviser to many other university leaders, Lawrence S. Bacow says he often counsels them that their second year in office, after the honeymoon, is often the toughest. That was true for his predecessor, Drew Gilpin Faust , who set …
FAS Dean’s Academic Priorities—and Financial Constraints
In presenting her annual report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this afternoon, during the first faculty meeting of the academic year, Dean Claudine Gay outlined her priorities within the context of the FAS’s intellectual and financial …
Football: Harvard 28-New Hampshire 23
Harvard football fans might have been permitted a sinking feeling of déjà vu during the fourth quarter at the Stadium last Friday night. The opponent had just scored to cut the home team’s lead to 28-23 and now the Crimson offense was charged with running …
A Decade of Faculty Diversity
Every year , Harvard tracks the diversity of its faculties in terms of race and gender, with the goal of increasing its numbers of female and minority faculty members. Since a decade ago, when more than two-thirds of tenured professors and nearly one-half …
Carrying a “Heavy Pack”
… concentrated in government and East Asian studies, and in 2025 she will report to Goodfellow Air Force Base as an …
Students for Fair Admissions Loses North Carolina Case
I n a ruling handed down on October 18 , Judge Loretta C. Biggs, of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, rejected Students for Fair Admissions’ (SFFA) lawsuit against the University of North Carolina (UNC)—the latest effort …
Barer-Bones Budget
Greater cost-consciousness will become a part of Harvard's culture in much leaner University budgets for fiscal year 2005, beginning on July 1. Interviewed in her Massachusetts Hall office on the September day when the Boston Globe reported "MIT to cut …
Issue: November-December 2003
Muslim American Life after October 7
Describing the October 7 Hamas attacks as a “watershed moment,” Asim Ijaz Khwaja, the co-chair of Harvard’s task force on combating anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian bias , spoke on Monday evening with Aslı Ü. Bâli, a Yale scholar of …