University News
Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.
Harvard Faculty Group Proposes Limits on A Grades
The grade inflation measure requires a full faculty vote, expected in the spring.
Commencement costs strain low-income students’ budgets
Commencement costs strain low-income students’ budgets.
by Zara Zhang
Natalie Portman ’03 Speaks at Harvard College Class Day 2015
At Harvard College Class Day, the actress urges class members to forge their own paths.
by Laura Levis
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