University News

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

Harvard Football: Harvard 31, Columbia 14

The Crimson stay unbeaten with a workmanlike win over the Lions.

by Dick Friedman

“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

Harvard summit on higher education and 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

Harvard’s Houghton Library to be renovated

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

Winthrop House tensions and government department concerns

Winthrop House tensions and government department concerns

by John S. Rosenberg

The gradual diversification of Harvard’s faculties

A tenure track, resources for recruiting and retention, childcare, and more contribute to changes in the professoriate.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvardians: transitions, appointments, and honors

Transitions, appointments, and honors

ART to Allston and dual-degree decision

ART to Allston and dual-degree decision

by John S. Rosenberg