University News

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

Harvard President Alan Garber Helps First-Years Move In

As a potential settlement with the Trump administration looms, Garber gets students settled. 

by Olivia Farrar

Threats Foreign and Domestic

Joseph Nye discusses geopolitics and Harvard’s challenges.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Interim President’s Agenda

Alan Garber on campus speech, academics, and his other Harvard priorities

by John S. Rosenberg

Inside Harvard’s Taylor Swift Course

An English course pairs the music with Willa Cather, William Wordsworth, and Dolly Parton.

by Nina Pasquini

News in Brief

Education dean and football coach step down, a significant art acquisition, and more

Talking about Talking

Fostering healthy disagreement

by Max J. Krupnick

Reengineering Arts and Sciences

Spurring innovation, rethinking departments, tapping centers—and Ph.D. support

by John S. Rosenberg

A Presidency’s End

Controversies over terrorism and antisemitism, free speech, plagiarism, and broader cultural currents bring a brief presidency to a traumatic end.

by John S. Rosenberg

Kenneth C. Frazier and Joseph Y. Bae to Join Harvard Corporation

Will succeed David M. Rubenstein and Paul Finnegan

by John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Overseers Petitioners 2024

Harvard alumni seeking a place on the Board of Overseers ballot

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Historians on Trump

Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief 

by Max J. Krupnick