Veteran MIT Administrator Named University Secretary

Suzanne Glassburn will manage the work of the Corporation and Board of Overseers.

by Jonathan Shaw

What to Expect

The choices and challenges facing the University and the Harvard community

by John S. Rosenberg

Juneteenth Is Now a University Holiday

The holiday “offers a moment to acknowledge and celebrate the promise of a new beginning,” University president Larry Bacow wrote. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

The Pandemic’s Economic Fallout

How the COVID-19 economic crisis has been fundamentally different from past recessions

by Matteo Wong

Harvard College Outlines Fall Options—with Instruction Remaining Remote

Dean Claudine Gay outlines “minimal,” “moderate,” and “full” residential scenarios, and the hurdles that have to be overcome.

by John S. Rosenberg

National Concerns about Policing Reverberate at Harvard

Police chief Riley to retire, and the University commissions an external review of the department.

by Matteo Wong

Harvard College Names New Heads of Houses

Cabot, Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy and Winthrop Houses will have new leadership starting July 1

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives

Academia’s reckoning with anti-black racism

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ending an Epidemic

The when and how of vaccines

by Jonathan Shaw

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. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Graduation, Socially Distanced

Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremonies

by John S. Rosenberg