John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Undergraduate Tuition
During the past 20 years, Harvard's undergraduate bill has risen from $14,000 to $39,880 per academic year (before any offsetting financial...
"Roots" and Race
In June, a New York Times article raised a long-simmering issue: the origins and ancestry of Harvard's black students. The piece described the...
Dispatches from the Front
Interim Iraqi Government minister Nesreen Berwari's phone number, area code 914 (a New Rochelle exchange!), rings in Baghdad, a satellite trick...
University People
University Professors Laurence H. Tribe Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office George M. Whitesides Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News...
A Gift for Openness
When Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, described the library's fledgling Open Collections...
Aiding Financial Aid
Two recent gifts and a change in graduate-student support, respectively, bolster Harvard's efforts to encourage public service; help students...
La Vida at Harvard
This April, the inaugural issue of La Vida Guide to Harvard highlighted the College's thriving Latino community. In the wake of the popular...
Cole Porter to Coolio
They're dancing on the Steinway piano. And on the parquet, the Persian rugs, and the oak tables. The room is reverberating to a song called...
Mr. Inside
There's a spacious aerie called the "penthouse" atop the Littauer Building at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), and it was...
The Wizard of Backstage
Last November, when the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) produced the French Romantic play Lorenzaccio on the Loeb Drama Center's main...