University News

Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.

The School of Public Health, Facing a Financial Reckoning, Seizes the Chance to Reinvent Itself

Dean Andrea Baccarelli plans for a smaller, more impactful Chan School of 2030.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard’s tax-exempt status threatened

Ability to host foreign students also in jeopardy

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Discipline and Financial Aid

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences discusses classroom conversations, boosts aid, addresses discipline—and faces austerity

by John S. Rosenberg

Brief Harvard News Spring 2025

Physician-authors address Commencement and Alumni Day, new School of Education Dean, and more

Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline

After the 2024 encampment, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences committee recommends changes.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Education School Dean Appointed

Nonie K. Lesaux transitions from interim to permanent dean.

by Nina Pasquini

Harvard Augments Financial Aid—and Girds for Austerity

Dean Hopi Hoekstra details Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ priorities.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Deans of Arts and Engineering on Plans and Priorities

The deans of arts and humanities and the school of engineering and applied sciences share their plans and priorities.

by Jonathan Shaw

“Hard Truths” about Harvard’s Classroom “Compact”

An Arts and Sciences committee raises anew questions about a Crimson education.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Fiscal Year 2024 Finances

Annual Harvard financial results, and a look at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ fisc and professoriate

by Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg

Brief News around Harvard January-February 2025

Nobel honorands, institutional voice, civil discourse, Rhodes Scholars, and more