University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Retains Winthrop Name
Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming
by Max J. Krupnick
“Service Starts with Summer”
Harvard College’s down payment on universal student public service
by John S. Rosenberg
Divest Harvard Makes Case for Dropping Fossil Fuels
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Sarah Whiting Named Dean of Graduate School of Design
Currently dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, Whiting will assume her new post on July 1.
by Jonathan Shaw
“Building on the Continuity”
A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
by Jean Martin , Marina N. Bolotnikova
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
by Jacob Sweet
Education for the Public Good
A Harvard summit probes how to meld universities’ academic and external aspirations.
by John S. Rosenberg
Masha Gessen on the Stories We Tell About Migration
The Russian-American journalist challenges “moral defaults” about immigrants.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
“A Sense of Belonging”
A renovation to make Houghton Library “open to all”
by Jacob Sweet
Debating Diversity
Closing arguments in the admissions lawsuit, and affirmative action in broader context
by John S. Rosenberg
Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment
Winthrop House tensions and government department concerns
by John S. Rosenberg