University News

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

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Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faces a $350 Million Deficit

At a faculty meeting, Dean Hopi Hoekstra advocates for long-term, structural solutions.

by Joanna M Weiss

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Making the Public Record Public

Harvard legal database released

by Max J. Krupnick

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Harvard College Admits Class of 2028

A smaller undergraduate applicant cohort—the first since Supreme Court ended affirmative action 

by John S. Rosenberg

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Reparations as Public Health

A Harvard forum on the racial health gap

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Yard

Unionizing Harvard Academic Workers

Pay, child care, workplace protections at issue 

by Lydialyle Gibson

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A Harvard Agenda Shaped by Speech

The work underway in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

by John S. Rosenberg

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Dialogue, not Debate

American University’s Lara Schwartz, J.D. ’98, teaches productive disagreement.

by Max J. Krupnick

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LaToya M. Hobbs Exhibit "Carving Out Time" Debuts at Harvard Art Museums

A monumental exhibit of woodblock prints from the Harvard Art Museums

by Nina Pasquini

Tom Ginsburg, Ned Hall, Janet Halley, Robert C. Post, and Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Universities in Public Debates

Institutional position-taking at Harvard and in higher education

by Jonathan Shaw

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Back to the Bond Market

Harvard’s new borrowings foretell ambitious new building programs.

by John S. Rosenberg

John Manning and John Goldberg

John Manning Appointed Interim Provost

Harvard Law School dean moves to central administration