University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Symposium Tackles 400 Years of Homelessness in America
Professors explore the history of homelessness in the U.S., from colonial poor laws to today’s housing crisis
Higher Education at an Inflection Point
Making the case for higher education, diversity, the humanities, speech, and more—at a perilous time
Harvard Endowment, Criminal Justice, and Settler Colonialism
Readers’s views on road safety, protests, settler colonialism, and responding to the Trump administration’s actions against Harvard
Richard P. Lifton Appointed to Harvard Corporation
Succeeds fellow life scientist Shirley Tilghman
The Government Details Its Demands
What Harvard is being asked to do as the Trump administration threatens research funding
Harvard Faculty Address Trump’s Assault on Higher Education
Arts and Sciences engages with the Trump administration’s assault on higher education.
Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding
Part of concerted effort to target campuses labeled antisemitic
Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline
After the 2024 encampment, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences committee recommends changes.
How to Protest Effectively
A Harvard Kennedy School panel on today’s resistance movements
Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard
Course probes the modern history of the Holy Land.
Harvard Education School Dean Appointed
Nonie K. Lesaux transitions from interim to permanent dean.