John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Cat, Frog, Worm...

The principal speakers during Commencement week 2000 said much about the value of reasoned inquiry, the importance of universities as a home for...

Rudenstine Will Step Down

Neil L. Rudenstine, whose service as Harvard's twenty-sixth president began July 1, 1991, announced on May 22 that he would step down at the end...

Distance Learning @Harvard.edu

New technologies, changing demographics, and the emergence of richly funded, Internet-based e-learning ventures may lead to serious upheavals...

The Adaptive Law of the Land

In an exaltation of deans, the acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the institute's dean-elect welcomed dean of...

Back to the Drawing Board

Big building projects head back to the drawing board

University People

Prize professors...

Dean Murphy Moves On

Dean moves on

Digital-age Policy

Who owns Harvard courses? Professors? The University?...

Medical Ethics Revisited

Harvard Medical School has decided for now not to liberalize its rules...

'60s Generation Confronts '90s Protest

Student protests then and now