University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Uncertainty Looms Over Planned FAS Changes
At informational town hall meetings, faculty and staff press administrators for details.
Harvard Business School academic growth plans
The Business School dean is bullish on engineering and data-science collaborations, and online learning.
Online learning evolves at Harvard and elsewhere
Online learning, evolving at Harvard and beyond, attracts critical analysis.
Harvard people in the news
Dunster departure, graduate-school deans, faculty writing-prize winners, and more
Harvard College class schedule math requirement
The College adopts a new class schedule, and renews the quantitative requirement with a nod toward data science.
Harvard graduate students to receive lower stipend increases
Harvard limits stipend increases to 1.5 percent for the next academic year.
Engaging with “Inclusion” at Harvard
President Faust’s task force hosts a University-wide discussion on April 5.
by Oset Babür
Harvard College Admits 5.2 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2021
The admission rate decreased, barely, to 5.20 percent, from last year’s 5.22 percent.
Ashton Carter to Harvard Kennedy School
The former U.S. Secretary of Defense rejoins the faculty in a new role.
Harvard plans significant data science institute
Unveiling a University research initiative
We’ve Heard All about Fake News—Now What?
The Berkman Klein Center hosts a panel on concrete tools to combat fake news.
by Oset Babür