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Governing Harvard: A Faculty View
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on September 27, its dean, William C. Kirby, said, “We begin this academic year having just gone through a most difficult one,” punctuated by sharp conflicts over the views and leadership of President …
Issue: November-December 2005
Education, Reschooled
Next fall, as K-12 schoolchildren throughout the country resume full-time classes, however transformed by the coronavirus, some of their future teachers, principals, and superintendents will find their education transformed, too. In the 2021-2022 academic …
Issue: May-June 2021
Deval Patrick and Drew Faust Address Harvard Commencement
The Afternoon Exercises of Harvard Commencement (this 364th edition, and its predecessors) are officially the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The Business Meeting HAA’s president —this year, Cynthia A. Torres ’80, M.B.A. ’84 (the …
Never Alone
Looking out at a crowd of 804 about-to-be Harvard Law School (HLS) graduates at class day May 22, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland spoke about work. After years of tiring study, graduates might not want to think more about labor. But Haaland did …
Bringing the Stars to Light
It is a Harvard story within a Harvard story: screenwriter Graham Sack ’03 and producer Jennifer 8. Lee ’99, two College-trained scientists-turned-filmmakers, have developed a television series about the Harvard Computers, a team of women who mapped the …
“Risk Forgiveness”
President Drew Faust, who spoke at Morning Prayers last academic year about the 1965 voting-rights march in Selma and about the diversity of the Harvard community , opened the 2015 fall term by visiting Appleton Chapel on September 2 to talk about …
Brevia
Smith Center Services When it opens this fall, Smith Campus Center (née Holyoke Center) will provide both common spaces and calories. Food vendors on the first floor include Pavement Coffeehouse, Swissbäkers, Bon Me, Blackbird Doughnuts, Saloniki, Oggi …
Issue: May-June 2018
David Miliband to Address Kennedy School Commencement
David Miliband , former U.K. foreign secretary and now president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC)—an organization that provides aid to victims of conflict and disaster—will deliver the Graduation Address to the Harvard Kennedy School …
Election Slates and Divestment Developments
The Harvard Alumni Association-nominated 2020 slate of candidates for the Board of Overseers and HAA’s own elected directors was announced today. The separate effort to nominate a slate of candidates by petition to the Office of the Governing Boards—in …
University News Briefs
Tough Grading for Gen Ed The College’s flagship general-education curriculum came under sharp criticism when a faculty review committee released its report for discussion at the May 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting. The requirement that …
Issue: July-August 2015
Yo-Yo Ma Is Kennedy Center Honorand
Yo-Yo Ma ’76, D.Mus. ’91, the internationally acclaimed cellist, will receive a 2011 Kennedy Center Honor on December 4, along with singer Barbara Cook, singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and actress Meryl Streep , Ar.D. ’10. Ma, …
Save the Date: President Gay Installation
P resident-elect Claudine Gay, who assumes office July 1 , will be formally installed on Friday, September 29, the Office of the University Marshal announced today . No further details are available yet, but in this digital age, the posting of the news …
A New Challenge for Antitrust
In the last few years, a new type of financial consolidation has caught the attention of antitrust regulators. Institutional investors—big companies like Fidelity and BlackRock—today own 70 percent of publicly traded stocks, according to some estimates, …
Issue: January-February 2018
Finding the Descendants of Enslavement
“This work is doable. The family structures of the Harvard-affiliated slaves may be currently unknown, but they are not unknowable.” That was the message this week from Richard Cellini, director of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, which in recent …
Harvard Arts and Sciences Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate studies. It is the highest honor …
Issue: July-August 2021