University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Michael S. Chae to Join Harvard Corporation
The alumni will fill two vacancies on the University’s governing board.
Divest Harvard Makes Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
Sarah Whiting Named Dean of the Graduate School of Design
Currently dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, Whiting will assume her new post on July 1.
“Building on the Continuity”
A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
by Jacob Sweet
Harvard summit on higher education and public good
A Harvard summit probes how to meld universities’ academic and external aspirations.
Masha Gessen on the Stories We Tell About Migration
The Russian-American journalist challenges “moral defaults” about immigrants.
Harvard’s Houghton Library to be renovated
A renovation to make Houghton Library “open to all”
by Jacob Sweet
Debating Diversity
Closing arguments in the admissions lawsuit, and affirmative action in broader context
Winthrop House tensions and government department concerns
Winthrop House tensions and government department concerns
The gradual diversification of Harvard’s faculties
A tenure track, resources for recruiting and retention, childcare, and more contribute to changes in the professoriate.