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

Graduate Student Union Challenges

Harvard and the union disagree over whether more than 300 ballots should be counted.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Law dean to depart and other news briefs

The Law School dean steps down, graduate-student union balloting, divestment, and more

Faculty Hear Report on Trends in Hiring and Promotion

Progress reported on gender, but with notable areas of concern remaining for some minority hires

by Jonathan Shaw

Graduate Student Union, Continued

Nearly two months after Harvard’s election, unionization still appears remote. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Law Dean Minow to Step Down

The school's leader since 2009 will conclude her service at the end of the academic year.

by John S. Rosenberg

Graduate Student Union Election Too Close to Call

The National Labor Relations Board will conduct hearings to determine the results of the election. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova , Sophia Nguyen

Harvard President Faust on “these unsettling times”

President Drew Faust addresses the faculty on undocumented students, research funding, endowments in a new era

by John S. Rosenberg

New Harvard entrepreneurship center

Harvard's three-legged encouragement of entrepreneurship

by John S. Rosenberg

More tumultuous Harvard labor relations

A strike, negotiations, and a vote on wages, benefits, and union recognition

by Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg

Two Harvardians awarded Nobel Prizes

Two Harvardians win Nobel Prizes, in peace and in economics.