University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths
A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.
Harvard Commencement week 2015: events for Wednesday, May 28
ROTC commissioning and numerous Class Day celebrations, including speeches by Portman, Miliband, and Giffords.
2015 Baccalaureate lauds activism
Faust tells seniors to harness fear and work for the common good.
Harvard appoints Francis J. Doyle engineering dean
New leader of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard measures on classroom privacy
A follow-up to last year’s observation of Harvard classrooms—and emerging issues from course-management software
Harvard teaching mentoring prizes
Harvard College and GSAS recognize teachers and mentors.
Harvard College general education criticized
Sharply critical faculty review of the College’s flagship general-education curriculum
Divest Harvard Protesters Blockade President Faust's Massachusetts Hall Office
Invoking history, activists call weeklong event the “lunch-counter moment for the twenty-first century.”
Harvard College admissions and costs
The new students, and the advent of the $60,000-plus term bill
Harvard men's basketball heads to a one-game playoff with Yale
After losing to Yale and defeating Brown, Harvard men’s basketball faces a one-game playoff.
Harvard advances theater concentration
An undergraduate concentration in “theater, dance, and media” comes into focus.