University News

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

Mark Carney on the Limits of Soft Power

At the 2026 Davos summit, the Canadian prime minister echoes Harvard’s Joseph Nye.

by Olivia Farrar

Kennedy School offer to controversial figure provokes uproar

A “visiting fellow” invitation provokes an uproar.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Final Clubs, Continued

Unrecognized single-gender social organizations dominate another Faculty of Arts and Sciences monthly meeting.

by John S. Rosenberg

Deans departing, sexual-assault standards, and a Lowell House bell

Deans departing, sexual-assault standards, and a Lowell House bell

Peers outperform Harvard endowment returns

More evidence that fiscal 2017 returns were “disappointing”

by John S. Rosenberg

The State of the Harvard Final-Club Debate

Continuing, heated differences over single-gender social organizations

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard FAS debt deal and inequality initiative

The dean’s annual report provides financial details on House renewal, the faculty census, and a new inequality initiative.

by John S. Rosenberg

Radcliffe Institute Dean Cohen Stepping Down

An advocate of common spaces and the arts moves on.

by John S. Rosenberg

One Step Closer to a New Alma Mater

Twenty submissions have been selected as semifinalists to replace the final line in Harvard’s alma mater. 

by Oset Babür

Harvard summit on academic inclusion

A Harvard conference on diversity and academic inclusion

by John S. Rosenberg

Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”

Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.

by Jennifer Gersten