University News

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

Harvard Football: Harvard 59, Stetson 7

In season opener, the Crimson dispatch the overmatched Hatters.

by Dick Friedman

“I'll never get over what happened to my son”

A Kennedy School discussion on new evidence and historical precedents in Michael Brown's death

by Lydialyle Gibson

Graduate Students Vote to Unionize

The outcome means that thousands of graduate students can begin collective bargaining with the University. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will speak at Harvard Class Day

The decorated author is best known for her novels and feminist writing. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Wim Wenders delivers the third Norton Lecture on Cinema

Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema. 

by Sophia Nguyen

A Progress Report on Faculty Diversity

Progress and barriers to diversifying Harvard’s faculty

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard elects Lawrence Bacow president

Lawrence S. Bacow named Harvard’s twenty-ninth president


by John S. Rosenberg

FAS dean to step down and more

FAS dean to step down, John Lewis to speak at Commencement, Hillary Clinton at Radcliffe, and more

Fossil-fuel-free goal, shopping week RIP, and more

News briefs, from green-energy goals and a move to course preregistration to final-club final sanctions

by John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova

Advanced Standing reduced at Harvard

Course credit toward fast-tracking the A.B. is eliminated.

by John S. Rosenberg

First-Gen policies, Smith Center services, and more

First-Gen policies, Smith Center services, and more University news