University News

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

Harvard Graduate Student Workers Strike

Union demands higher pay, protections for non-citizen members, and changes to the harassment complaint process.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Alan M. Garber named new Harvard provost

An experienced Stanford administrator, an expert on health policy and economics, returns to take a big job at his alma mater.

Harvard Commencement 2011: Vignettes from the dais

Human touches within Commencement's pomp

Harvard Commencement Confetti 2011

An omnium-gatherum of notes and statistics, vital and otherwise

Harvard's honorary-degree recipients of 2011

The honorary-degree recipients of 2011

Highlights from Harvard's 360th Commencement

Highlights from Harvard's 360th Commencement

Major new Allston plan announced

Commercial development of housing, a "private-sector enterprise research campus," and a hotel and conference center would replace much of the academic expansion Harvard envisioned earlier.

Jill Abramson ’76 named executive editor of the New York Times

First woman to fill the newspaper's top editorial post

Radcliffe Medalist Ela Bhatt tells her story of empowering India's poorest women

Radcliffe Medalist Ela Bhatt tells her story of empowering India's poorest women through work.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's advice to Harvard graduates

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf addresses new graduates. With video of remarks by Sirleaf and President Drew Faust.