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Lapp Letter
… Note to readers: this is an accessible version of an original letter February 23, 2022 Dear Mayor Wu, … and Harvard Allston Task Force Members, In his letter to the Harvard Allston Task Force on December 6 th , President … by the extensive public review process related to the Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) Phase A plan, and Harvard’s …
Henry Rosovsky Memorial Service May 31
… P resident Lawrence S. Bacow has invited the Harvard community to remember and celebrate Henry … citizen and a towering intellect, was Geyser University Professor and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences emeritus, former acting …
Puritan Party Time
… wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Of making books about Harvard there is no end, and here’s another, Veritas: Harvard … May. The author is Andrew Schlesinger ’70, son and grandson of two Harvard historians and himself the winner of two Emmy …
Issue: May-June 2005
Beyond Empowerment
… One of the first clubs I joined at Harvard was the Women’s Initiative in Leadership (WIL), a weekly speaker series offered by the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. I’ve …
Issue: January-February 2025
Curating Murders
… Cannibalism, lethally potent aphrodisiacs, the embalming and display of a major financial donor--not routine agenda items at … the Oversight Committee that monitors the fictional Museum of Man (MOM), loosely affiliated with the equally fictional …
Issue: July-August 2010
Undergraduate Workers Unionize
… trainings to prepare, and he received a draft schedule with the café’s available shifts. Then, in early November, his … to explain his situation to the then-associate director of retail dining operations at Harvard and piece together … he wasn’t compensated for all the hours he worked at one of those other jobs—at a cafeteria on the Harvard Law School …
Harvard's Ethnic "Salad Bowl"
… On one of the earliest days of my freshman fall, I left Harvard Yard with a backpack … confusion than I had ever asked for. I had just survived the annual student activities fair, which had been swarmed …
Issue: May-June 2022
Harvard Admits 8.7 Percent of Undergraduate Early Applicants
… Harvard College announced this evening that 692 of 7,921 early-action applicants were admitted to the class of 2028. This 8.7 percent acceptance rate compares to 7.5 …
Faust Appoints VP for Government, Community, and Public Affairs
… Faust appointed Christine Heenan, founder and president of Clarendon Group, a Providence, Rhode Island-based public … Boston University, was a business strategy consultant, and then entered government, serving on the Domestic Policy Council staff during the first term of the Clinton administration, focusing on health and …
“We Only Have One Planet”
… General Ban Ki-moon, M.P.A. ’84, had harsh words for the world’s leaders during an address to Harvard Kennedy … for—and urged the audience toward a “global citizenship” of compassion and justice and defense of freedom. He spoke sharply against the war in Ukraine, now …
Pending Business: Social Organizations
… Separately , at the May 2 meeting, FAS members adopted changes to the … routine. “In keeping with the University’s articulation of belonging and inclusion,” gendered pronouns will be … law permitting recreational use for adults); smoking (of tobacco, including vaping); and final examinations in …
John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw
Issue: July-August 2017
“How War Has Made Us”
… President Drew Faust has often described how the battle to achieve civil rights for African Americans … Selma . Now, she has engaged with the other defining trauma of that era, the war in Vietnam. During an extended trip to …
Faculty Composition
… Harvard's faculty consists of both tenured professors and "ladder faculty" (associate and assistant professors), and other teaching faculty (professors of practice, lecturers, …
Issue: March-April 2005
Shakespeare after All
… When Kenan professor of English and American literature and language Marjorie … Harvard graduates at an "Alumni College" several years ago, the course was so popular that it had to be repeated. …
Issue: September-October 2004
Relax and Renew
… The parties are over, the lights have dimmed, and the guests … It’s time to rest and renew. Fortunately, there are plenty of places to do so near the Square or within a scenic easy … head to the quiet Berkshires for a respite. For a mix of spa-like indulgence and wellness programming, visit …
Issue: January-February 2023