John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Jonathan and Christine Seidman

As youngsters they were far apart—he spent much of his youth in Ghana, she grew up on Long Island—but they met at Harvard, married in...

Military Recruiters Get Official Welcome

For more than 20 years, military recruiters have been banned from working through the Law School's Office of Career Services because of the...

Veritas Values

Prompted by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies—the group formed in response to the "living wage...

A Slightly Grayer Faculty

The unique institution of tenure gave higher education a loophole when the 1970 Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was amended in 1986...

Rethinking the Divinity School

"The university is very healthy as a whole. The immensely successful Rudenstine presidency has placed us in an excellent position to face...

A Cluster of (Scholarly) Stars

The Radcliffe Institute, spreading its wings as a center for advanced study affiliated with a major research university, is extending the reach...

Faculty Perk Sheet

A pdf of the Faculty Perk Sheet by Andy Borowitz '80 is available for download...

Messenger from Pakistan

Amid what administrators and police said was the heaviest security ever for a Harvard speaker, Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, told a...

University People

Robert D. Reischauer Harvard News Office Familiar Fellow Robert D. Reischauer '63 was appointed to the Harvard Corporation (The...

Elite Educators

When last seen, statistician Richard J. Light, Gale professor of education, had published his findings on what makes for an effective...