University News

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

12,000 Harvard Alumni File Amicus Brief in Funding Freeze Lawsuit

Alumni from every Harvard school and class since 1950 rally behind the University 

by Nina Pasquini

Fred Glimp, a Harvard Legend, Dies at 91

The long-serving dean and vice president was a proud member of the College’s “Great Middle Class.”

Diversifying the Faculties

Documenting a decade of gradual evolution in the professoriate

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

University People

New Board of Overseers leaders, top teachers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and more

Pending Business: Maths

The vexatious business of defining a gen-ed course in quantitative literacy

by John S. Rosenberg

Pending Business: Social Organizations

The College’s final-club sanctions: an update

by John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw

Brevia

New Law School dean, new House leaders, Harvard’s top salaries, and more

Education, Ever More Online

From HarvardX to the classroom, Harvard Medical teaching online, and more

by John S. Rosenberg

Graduate-Student Unionization

The status of a contested election

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

John Manning Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School

The faculty member succeeds Martha Minow.

by John S. Rosenberg

“There’s Nothing Beyond Our Capacity”

In his Class Day address, the former vice president urged graduating seniors, “You have to engage.”

by Sophia Nguyen