University News

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

people stand at a table that reads "Harvard College Dean of Students Office First-Year Orientation"

Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths

A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Yard

Unionizing Harvard Academic Workers

Pay, child care, workplace protections at issue 

by Lydialyle Gibson

University Hall

A Harvard Agenda Shaped by Speech

The work underway in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

by John S. Rosenberg

Photograph of Lara Schwartz

Dialogue, not Debate

American University’s Lara Schwartz, J.D. ’98, teaches productive disagreement.

by Max J. Krupnick

Black and white woodcut print depicting family waking up in parents bed

LaToya M. Hobbs Exhibit "Carving Out Time" Debuts at Harvard Art Museums

A monumental exhibit of woodblock prints from the Harvard Art Museums

by Nina Pasquini

Tom Ginsburg, Ned Hall, Janet Halley, Robert C. Post, and Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Universities in Public Debates

Institutional position-taking at Harvard and in higher education

by Jonathan Shaw

Illustration showing the John Harvard Statue against a collage of dollar signs in green

Back to the Bond Market

Harvard’s new borrowings foretell ambitious new building programs.

by John S. Rosenberg

John Manning and John Goldberg

John Manning Appointed Interim Provost

Harvard Law School dean moves to central administration

Kevin Young

Kevin Young Named 2024 Harvard Arts Medalist

Museum director and poet to be honored April 24

by John S. Rosenberg

The State of Black America

Harvard African American scholars take stock of a difficult moment. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Joseph Nye

Threats Foreign and Domestic

Joseph Nye discusses geopolitics and Harvard’s challenges.

by Lydialyle Gibson