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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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
The Food Waste Problem
For one of the world’s leading experts on food waste, visiting a grocery store can be frustrating. Stepping into her local Whole Foods, clinical professor of law Emily Broad Leib notices something awry in the store’s first produce display. The unbagged …
Issue: November-December 2021
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 …
History-Making Harvard Skier Pushes His Limits
Everyone has jitters in the moments before a mass-start cross-country ski race, and for good reason. When the gun goes off, dozens of competitors, with just a few feet of space between them, simultaneously accelerate—kicking and gliding forcefully as they …
Issue: March-April 2022
Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2005-2006 academic year. Physics concentrator Rebecca Walsh Dell, of Piedmont, California, and Mather House, will be the Lieutenant Charles H. Fiske III …
Issue: July-August 2005
Harvard’s NBA Champion
For a couple of years now, the Harvard men’s basketball team and Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokić have carried on a playful social-media exchange, ever since he kidded in a 2021 pregame radio show that he’d attended the College. (In fact, the …
Harvard Medalists
Avarita L. Hanson Avarita L. Hanson ’75 in 1975 founded what’s now known as the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), and has served as treasurer of the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1975, president of the Harvard Club of Georgia, Harvard Alumni …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard Goes South (of the Border)
Harvard Goes South (of the Border) Mark your calendars for the Harvard Alumni Association's alumni conference in Mexico City on March 1-2, 2005. The event, to include a reception and lunch with University president Lawrence H. Summers, follows the …
Issue: November-December 2004
Online Takes Off
The pandemic’s effects on classroom teaching were immediate and binary: given the dangers of viral transmission, courses last March were hurriedly adapted to Zoom, and, last fall, more refined versions of online pedagogy appeared (see “School Goes …
Issue: March-April 2021