University News

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

Harvard Kennedy School Unveils American Service Fellowship

Will fund degrees for 50 public servants and military veterans

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard Files Amicus Brief with NLRB in Graduate Student Unionization Case

The University argues that the relationship between graduate students and universities should remain academic, not managerial, and student labor unions would “damage private sector graduate education.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard spring 2016 news briefs

Shirley Tilghman on the Corporation, Jane Yellen at Radcliffe, encouraging entrepreneurs, aiming at endowments, and more

Harvard Kennedy School campus construction

Building capacity, literally, at the public-policy campus

Michelle Williams appointed Harvard public health dean

A faculty member and alumna becomes a leader in Longwood.

by John S. Rosenberg

Graduate School Doubles Paid Time Off for Student Parents

The annnouncement comes amid a movement to form a graduate student labor union. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Graduate Students Move to Unionize

Graduate students seek to form a labor union.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Engineering the future of Harvard’s SEAS

SEAS dean Frank Doyle shares insights.

by Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg

Harvard fall 2015 news briefs

Medical dean stepping down, Rhodes and Marshall scholars, more conservative Winthrop House addition, and more

Photographs of black professors defaced at Harvard Law School

Tensions arise at the University—as elsewhere around the country. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova