University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Faculty Debate Plan to Cap A Grades
At a lively meeting, faculty members weighed a grade inflation plan that most agreed is imperfect.
Harvard Law dean to depart and other news briefs
The Law School dean steps down, graduate-student union balloting, divestment, and more
Remaking Harvard Management Company
New leadership begins sweeping change, attempting to improve persistent underperformance.
Challenges to endowments and philanthropy
On the agenda: challenges to endowments and philanthropy
Rethinking policy on Harvard social clubs
Broadening the debate on Harvard’s single-gender social organizations
Faculty Hear Report on Trends in Hiring and Promotion
Progress reported on gender, but with notable areas of concern remaining for some minority hires
Readers Reflect: How Should Harvard Respond to the Immigration Ban?
Reflecting on Harvard’s role in the Trump administration
by Oset Babür
Harvard Files Amicus Brief in Case Against Immigration Ban
The University argues that the president’s immigration ban threatens its academic interests.
25 years, and five "Figaros": Harvard College Opera celebrates its anniversary
With swankier digs and a new name, the undergraduate company continues an operatic tradition.
Does Journalism Still Have a Future?
A panel on an anxious profession
by Oset Babür
Harvard’s broader approach to single-gender sanctions
Détente in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as more voices will be heard