John Harvard's Journal

A Near-Perfect Football Season Ends in Disappointment

A loss to Villanova derails Harvard in the playoffs. 

by Dick Friedman

How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed

How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed

by John S. Rosenberg

Nicco Mele of Harvard’s Shorenstine Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy

The director of the Shorenstein Center on how the Internet came to mean so much to him. 

by Oset Babür

Public Health’s Past and Future

Michelle Williams, a year into her role as Public Health School dean

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard building boom

A campus construction program of unprecedented proportions

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard President Faust to step down

President Faust’s exit timetable, and the search for her successor

by John S. Rosenberg

How to Make a Massive Open Online Course

HarvardX transforms a popular course in epidemiology to serve a global audience.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Portrait: historian Sunil Amrita, Mehta professor of South Asian studies

The Bay of Bengal is central for this South Asia scholar.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Derek Bok on reforming higher ed

Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Social Club Ban?

A Harvard committee proposes eliminating unsanctioned student social organizations.

by Jonathan Shaw

Business school-engineering joint tech degree

Harvard’s business and engineering faculties join forces on a new technology-design degree—before they co-locate in Allston.

by John S. Rosenberg