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

Renovating Harvard Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall

Renovations on Gund Hall of Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) to be completed by next year. 

by Nina Pasquini

Brief Harvard News

Commencement speaker, new Corporation Fellows, and more

Back to the Bond Market

Harvard’s new borrowings foretell ambitious new building programs.

by John S. Rosenberg

FAS: Faculty and Fisc

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’s fisc—and aging professoriate

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard's 2023 Fiscal Year

Harvard sustains a fiscal 2023 operating surplus—and endowment returns turn (modestly) positive.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Appoints Ritu Kalra as New CFO

University finance executive succeeds Thomas Hollister as vice president.  

by John S. Rosenberg

The Changing of the (Financial) Guard

With the naming of a new University treasurer, a successful Harvard team begins to turn over—plus a Corporation departure.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Pay

The annual report on leaders’ compensation

by Jonathan Shaw

Ken Griffin’s Naming Gift for the Graduate School

Prominent donor further supports Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

by Jonathan Shaw

An Academic Worker’s Union?

Organizing efforts and tough wage negotiations on campus

by Lydialyle Gibson