University News

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

Memorial Church

Harvard Adopts Reforms as Higher Ed Turmoil Continues

University creates new “interfaith engagement” role; Columbia, Brown settle with the government.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Embracing AI

The dawn of the virtual teaching fellow

by Jonathan Shaw

Illustration of two teams working together. One is well-coordinated, the other is not.

Picking Team Players

A test can identify these productivity-boosting personnel.

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard President Claudine Gay in her new office July 5, 2023

New Digs

Claudine Gay’s first day in her presidential office

Students protest the Supreme Court decision.

After Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court upends admissions.

by Jonathan Shaw , Lincoln Caplan

Irene Soto Marín with Harvard's Ancient Mediterranean Classical Sculptures

Irene Soto Marín

Ancient history professor studies coins, ceramics, and Zelda.

by Max J. Krupnick

Arts and Sciences dean Hopi Hoekstra

News in Brief

New Arts and Sciences dean, chief financial officer, Allston construction, and more

Honoring Alumni Interviewers

Miller-Hunn Award recipients

Claudine Gay and her husband, Christopher Afendulis, outside Houghton Library, June 13, 2023

A “Scholar’s Scholar”

A profile of Harvard’s thirtieth president

by John S. Rosenberg

The New Crew

The 2023-24 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. 

A large group of donkeys entering Harvard Yard with a few elephants interspersed.

The Elephant in the Room

Conservative undergraduates’ campus debates

by Max J. Krupnick