University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Summers Takes Leave Amid Harvard Probe
Previously undisclosed Epstein links to Harvard affiliates leads to a University review.
Convocation 2017: What Should an Education Be at Such a Moment?
Speakers reflect on the goals of a liberal arts university.
Harvard faculty’s final-club opposition
A new motion aims to bring the proposed ban before the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Harvard Presidential Search Advances
Faculty and staff advisory committees unveiled
The First-Generation Gap
Advocating support for first-generation Harvard students
by Alisha Ukani
Harvard building boom
A campus construction program of unprecedented proportions
Recruiting economic diversity
The College admissions office shares strategies.
by Alisha Ukani
The polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards
How the polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards
Harvard’s zero-emissions green building
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities renovates its headquarters to consume almost zero energy.
by Alisha Ukani
Harvard President Faust to step down
President Faust’s exit timetable, and the search for her successor
Derek Bok on reforming higher ed
Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.