University Finances
Reporting on Harvard’s budget, endowment, and financial strategy.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Appoints a New Finance Dean
Warren Petrofsky joins at a crucial moment when the FAS is dealing with a $350 million deficit.
Nancy Coleman Dean Harvard Continuing Education
A new leader for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ large extension operation
Choices challenges facing Harvard approaching fall
The choices and challenges facing the University and the Harvard community
Harvard Will Guarantee Staff Pay and Benefits Past June 28
“[W]e will not be pursuing any furloughs or layoffs of our employees at this time,” executive vice president Katie Lapp wrote in an email.
Harvard’s COVID-19 lessons, and new challenges
What Harvard has already learned from the pandemic—and strategic challenges to come
Harvard fall coronavirus decisions
The factors influencing the fall semester—and beyond
Harvard professional schools move online, endowment distribution decreased
…and the endowment distribution is decreased, as the College completes its plans.
Harvard Executive-Education Losses
An acute casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 and the Graduate Student Union
“When times are tough, there comes to be this real question of who is forced to bear the cost.”
Harvard Projects $750-Million Revenue Shortfall
Executive vice president Katie Lapp details losses from research funding and executive education.
Harvard’s Endowment to Go “Greenhouse-Gas Neutral” by 2050
The announcement is not the same as fossil-fuel divestment, though it comes amid months of intensified activism calling for divestment.