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Real Estate by Design
… Real estate, as the saying goes, is about location, location, location. But … it is also about timing. By one estimate, nearly one-sixth of U.S. commercial office space was vacant this past summer: a greater share …
Issue: November-December 2023
Teaching and Learning: Taking Stock
… Three years after the inception of edX, the Harvard- and MIT- led … Teaching (HILT) was formed, the University is taking stock of its efforts to enhance pedagogy and education. In a white …
Issue: January-February 2016
Photographs from Commencement Week
… assignment for Harvard Magazine , Jim Harrison has captured the emotions, traditions, and historic moments at Harvard Commencements for decades. In this most unusual of Commencement years, celebrating the class of 2022 with an in-person graduation, and the classes of …
Harvard Charters Sexual-Assault Task Force
… In the wake of an anonymous undergraduate’s personal account of an unwanted sexual encounter, published earlier this week in The Harvard Crimson and alleging antiquated and insensitive …
Kevin Young to Address Harvard Alumni Association
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), which previously … will appear as a principal guest speaker. Young, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture , is an acclaimed …
Lampoon Battles Globetrotters in Hoops
… Clad in their team colors of purple and gold and sporting everything … dresses and heels, the Harvard Lampoon took to the streets of Harvard Square today to face the world-famous Harlem …
Harvard Goes Dancing
… Last Sunday , the Harvard women’s basketball team convened in the Murr Center’s Hall of History , surrounded by reminders of the University’s athletic tradition, including a photo …
Rebuilding or Reloading?
… It was either sheer inertia or a heartfelt tribute to Tim Murphy that … could any program survive the loss through graduation of 13 All-Ivy performers (including the league’s 2015 offensive player of the year, quarterback Scott Hosch ’16) …
Issue: November-December 2016
Brevia
… Animal-Rights Threats Opposition to the use of animals in biomedical research (the subject of this magazine's January-February 1999 cover story) took a …
Advice for an Imperfect World
… in Cambridge to begin his first year as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 50 years ago this fall. Now, as president of Harvard, he began his speech at this year’s Convocation …
Harvard Business School Launches HBX
… learning . It differs in two significant ways from edX, the Harvard-MIT online learning partnership through which HarvardX has offered massive open online courses (MOOCs) from diverse … HBX is pioneering fee-based courses, which hold the promise of significant new revenue streams. The new HBS-originated …
Commencement Confetti
… '77 NEWS BLACKOUTS Notwithstanding that Harvard is a place of free and open discussion, the class of 1977 declared its reunion symposiums off the record--a …
Issue: July-August 2002
Washington Worries
… Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), who was appointed a vice chair of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team in late November, filed a new version of his Reducing Excessive Debt and Unfair Costs of Education … exceeding $1 billion to use “at least 25 percent of their investment gains to reduce the costs of attendance for …
Issue: March-April 2017
Supreme Court Rules on Affirmative Action
… The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin , on which it heard arguments last …
Fiscal Affairs
… Like that other big bureaucracy, in Washington, D.C., Harvard has been … According to the most recent Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, prepared by Allen J. Proctor, vice …