University News

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

Harvard Adopts Reforms as Higher Ed Turmoil Continues

University creates new “interfaith engagement” role; Columbia, Brown settle with the government.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Endowment, Criminal Justice, and Settler Colonialism

Readers’s views on road safety, protests, settler colonialism, and responding to the Trump administration’s actions against Harvard

Richard P. Lifton Appointed to Harvard Corporation

Succeeds fellow life scientist Shirley Tilghman

by John S. Rosenberg

The Government Details Its Demands

What Harvard is being asked to do as the Trump administration threatens research funding

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Faculty Address Trump’s Assault on Higher Education

Arts and Sciences engages with the Trump administration’s assault on higher education.

by John S. Rosenberg

Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding

Part of concerted effort to target campuses labeled antisemitic

by John S. Rosenberg

Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline

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

by John S. Rosenberg

How to Protest Effectively

A Harvard Kennedy School panel on today’s resistance movements

by Lydialyle Gibson

Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard

Course probes the modern history of the Holy Land.

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard Education School Dean Appointed

Nonie K. Lesaux transitions from interim to permanent dean.

by Nina Pasquini

Increasing Access

President Alan M. Garber on enhancing financial aid and extending education beyond Harvard’s campus

by Alan M. Garber