Search
Universities’ Financial Straits: A Moody’s Retrospective
… In the credit-industry equivalent of a thriller, Moody’s … now.") In practice, Moody's notes, these conditions gave rise to “institutional preference for more borrowing to pay …
Allston: Harvard's 50-Year Plan
… Ten million square feet of new buildings, as many as 12,000 new jobs, and many billions of dollars: the numbers alone suggest the scope of Harvard’s plans over … enrollment in engineering and applied sciences expected to rise only by about 140 during the next decade, “We do not …
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups’ activities in this space. (Send items to …
Issue: November-December 2009
After the Storm: Presidential Perspectives
… During a conversation at her Massachusetts Hall office on September 8, and in a September 21 Sanders Theatre dialogue with former ABC news anchor Charlie Gibson, … and its direction. After the “unanticipated, earthshaking crises of 2008-2009” (when the endowment’s value sank by …
Issue: November-December 2010
“To Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind”
… one today, as eight ROTC graduates were commissioned into the United States armed forces. The nation’s highest-ranking military officer and principal military adviser to the President, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley, …
The SIGnboard
… A number of Harvard’s 49 Shared Interest Groups (SIGs; … http://alumni.harvard.edu/haa/sigs ) are hosting get-togethers during Commencement and Reunion week. Early listings … In a welcoming and compassionate environment, all survivors of on-campus sexual assault and their supporters are welcome …
Issue: May-June 2014
Jill Johnson Brings the Heat to Harvard Dance
… A self-described “radical optimist” who’s traveled the world as a dancer and choreographer, Jill Johnson brings … fiery red hair and warm personality to Harvard as the new Office for the Arts (OFA) dance director. Harvard Magazine recently sat down with …
Henry Chapman Mercer
… found not a house in flames, but a bonfire atop Fonthill, the fantastical 44-room concrete home of Henry Chapman Mercer, A.B. 1879. That bonfire let Mercer celebrate his birthday, maintain the tradition of fires on St. John’s Eve, and inaugurate his new home by …
Issue: January-February 2018
Campaign Cues
… Welcome to this important day in Harvard’s history. Over the past decade, I have chosen to spend a great deal of my time traveling from Los Angeles, where I live, to … 170 round trips…and I have chosen to spend a great deal of my philanthropy on Harvard as well. I’m in the investment …
Issue: November-December 2013
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 30 … , using SIG in the “class year” line.) Alumnae and Friends of Radcliffe Join us for a reception/tea in the Radcliffe … in February, aims to develop an intergenerational community of alumnae to increase and strengthen Harvard women’s …
Issue: May-June 2013
“Our History Is a Treasure Box”
… It started 150 years ago , with the idea that perhaps Harvard should offer a graduate program. Initially, the College faculty … department has evolved into the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), housing 57 programs of study …
Cambridge 02138
… reform (September-October, page 37) is an exemplary display of the weaknesses of the charter-led education “reform” … is treating schools as though they were free-market enterprises, gambling with children’s education as an acceptable …
Issue: November-December 2016
Funny Because It’s True
… For David Mandel ’92, filming the final season of HBO’s political comedy Veep was a race … made its name as a jet-black satire, sending up the foibles of American government by painting its characters as just …
Issue: March-April 2019
A Cautionary Tale
… Robert J. Samuelson ’67 had the bad luck to send The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence to the printer the spring before the … Republican state senator named Scott Brown surprised everyone by winning the Senate seat that Edward M. …
Issue: May-June 2010
Repatriating Native American Remains
… When Joseph P. “Joe” Gone ’92 was a student at Harvard, the University was inventorying the thousands of Native American remains stored at the Peabody Museum of … “collection practices that placed the academic enterprise above respect for the dead and human decency,” briefly …
Issue: September-October 2021