University News

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

Harvard Alumni Affairs Databases Breached

The University is investigating the cyberattack, which may have compromised the personal information of alumni, donors, students, faculty, and staff.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Roundup of recent Harvard news

HBS building boomlet and innovation lab, Rhodes and Marshall Scholars, HMS Center for Primary Care, studying "institutional corruption," and other University news

Harvard's 2010 fiscal year financial report

The University's annual financial report portrays an institution adapting to an era of reduced revenues and expenses.

Planning a Digital Public Library of America

Leaders of research libraries, foundations, and national cultural institutions gathered at Harvard to discuss the feasibility of creating a national digital library.

Harvard 2010 report on faculty development and diversity

Highlights from a recent report on faculty development and diversity

The Harvard Corporation revises its operations and organization

The senior governing board revises its "composition, structure, and practices."

Year-end humor with a Harvard angle

Elena Kagan, Mark Zuckerberg, and Drew Faust's hard-charging, softball-playing daughter

Provost Steven Hyman to step down after a decade of service

The overseer of interdisciplinary scholarship and Harvard's affiliated institutions concludes a decade of service.

Harvard's libraries adopt new administrative structure

Management of the Harvard University Library will be consolidated under a single director.

Harvard University governance to change

For the senior governing board, an expanded membership, term limits, and a fresh focus on the University’s strategic opportunities and challenges

Condoleezza Rice urges keeping Africa on the U.S. foreign-policy agenda

The United States should support democratic governance and responsible sovereigns, the former secretary of state says in a speech at the Kennedy School.