University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths
A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.
How a Young Alumni Movement Wants to Change Harvard’s Investment Policies
An emerging, expansive view of socially responsive endowment investments
Harvard and Life Sciences Partners to Build a Center for Biological Therapies
A new center aims to bring cutting-edge medicines “from laboratory to approved therapy.”
Harvard, Yale Students Delay Second Half of The Game
Student protestors for fossil-fuel divestment delay the second half of The Game.
by Jacob Sweet
Harvard president enables more research into University's slavery ties
The president announces a $5-million initiative.
A Harvard Graduate Student Union Strike?
After more than a year negotiating, the union sets a deadline of December 3.
Harvard First-Generation Student Alumni Stories
Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”
Can the Catholic Church Help Explain Western Psychology?
A social-science analysis of how Catholicism transformed Western culture
Harvard Business School Dean Nohria to Step Down
Will step down at the end of this academic year
Harvard Board of Overseers Divestment, Governance Challenge
Young alumni and others advance an agenda of governance change and divestment from fossil-fuel investments.
Harvard Faculty Divestment Debate
A formal, docketed discussion as proponents of divestment intensify their campaign