University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Five Questions with Nancy Gibbs and Thomas E. Patterson
The Washington Post laid off more than a third of its journalists. Does this signal a new era for newsrooms?
Harvard Overseer Candidates’ 2025 Priorities
Governing-board nominees’ perspectives on the University’s challenges and opportunities
Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates
Slates announced for spring election
Harvard Football Goes Bowling
In a new sports environment, a major shift in Ivy policy
Antisemitism on Campuses
Jewish studies faculty react to a year of turmoil.
Harvard Fiscal Year 2024 Finances
Annual Harvard financial results, and a look at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ fisc and professoriate
Brief News around Harvard January-February 2025
Nobel honorands, institutional voice, civil discourse, Rhodes Scholars, and more
Harvard Library Protests and Free Speech
Balancing academic requirements and free speech, in a semester calm enough to permit more focus on Harvard’s core strengths—and questions of governance
Who Should Define Campus Free Speech?
Skirmishing about what it means to protest
President Garber installed as president of Harvard
A private ceremony celebrated Garber’s appointment as president.
A Ministry of Presence
Capuchin friars bring food and supplies to Harvard Square’s homeless.