University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
At Harvard, AI Meets “Post-Neoliberalism”
Experts debate whether markets alone should govern tech in the U.S.
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
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.
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 Residence and Teaching Option
Dean Claudine Gay outlines “minimal,” “moderate,” and “full” residential scenarios, and the hurdles that have to be overcome.
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
New Faculty Deans for Cabot, Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy and Winthrop Houses
Cabot, Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy and Winthrop Houses will have new leadership starting July 1
Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives
Academia’s reckoning with anti-black racism
Searching for a COVID-19 vaccine
The when and how of vaccines
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.