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Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Aid Augmented
To make attending the College more affordable for lower- and middle-income families, Harvard has extended the financial-aid initiative it...
A Presidency’s Early End
After five years of frequent controversy on matters of fundamental academic and intellectual substance, and the style in which those issues were...
Kevin Eggan
Kevin Eggan Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Last year Kevin Eggan was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. He met developmental...
Weighing In
The resignation of President Lawrence H. Summers became grist for a torrent of commentary worldwide, much of it highly political, even...
Gender Gains
In the wake of last year’s upheaval over appointing women to professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the challenges...
The Interim Agenda
Derek Bok, Harvard’s president from 1971 to 1991, resumes those duties on July 1 on an interim basis until a permanent successor to...
University People
Commencement Speaker Jim Lehrer Courtesy of WSIU-TV Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer...
Precedent-Setting Presidential Search
The search for a successor to President Lawrence H. Summers will involve expanded outreach to the Harvard community. In a March 30 news release...
Yesterday’s News
1926 The annual picture-taking of freshmen and seniors in front of Widener breaks up when the former, ordered off the steps by the latter...
Scholars’ Haven
Noel Twagiramungu won’t speak about the assassination attempt—the event that drove him from Rwanda remains under investigation. Two...