University News

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

Trump Administration Unveils New Attacks on Harvard

Government tightens financial oversight of Harvard, threatens to pull student aid.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Deans departing, sexual-assault standards, and a Lowell House bell

Deans departing, sexual-assault standards, and a Lowell House bell

Peers outperform Harvard endowment returns

More evidence that fiscal 2017 returns were “disappointing”

by John S. Rosenberg

The State of the Harvard Final-Club Debate

Continuing, heated differences over single-gender social organizations

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard FAS debt deal and inequality initiative

The dean’s annual report provides financial details on House renewal, the faculty census, and a new inequality initiative.

by John S. Rosenberg

Radcliffe Institute Dean Cohen Stepping Down

An advocate of common spaces and the arts moves on.

by John S. Rosenberg

One Step Closer to a New Alma Mater

Twenty submissions have been selected as semifinalists to replace the final line in Harvard’s alma mater. 

by Oset Babür

Harvard summit on academic inclusion

A Harvard conference on diversity and academic inclusion

by John S. Rosenberg

Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”

Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.

by Jennifer Gersten

First Draft from Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging

The task force shares a preliminary report. 

by Oset Babür

2017 Radcliffe symposium on health care

A Radcliffe Institute symposium examines the recent policies—and politics—of the U.S. health system.

by Lydialyle Gibson