University News

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

The School of Public Health, Facing a Financial Reckoning, Seizes the Chance to Reinvent Itself

Dean Andrea Baccarelli plans for a smaller, more impactful Chan School of 2030.

by Jonathan Shaw

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

Harvard Commencement 2018

Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations

Emma Dench named dean of Harvard graduate school

Interim leader of the graduate school now succeeds Xiao-Li Meng.

by John S. Rosenberg

Klarman Hall nears completion at Business School

Harvard Business School’s evolving campus

Allston development, advanced standing, Medical School monies

Allston development, advanced standing, Medical School monies

by John S. Rosenberg

Grad-student unionization, sexual assault, and more

Grad-student unionization, sexual assault, and more

New Grad Student Union Election on April 18-19

The election will replace the results of the unionization election that took place in November 2016. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Will Likely Hold New Graduate-Student Union Election

A final vote tally finds that 1,526 students voted against forming a labor union and 1,396 voted in favor. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova