University News

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

12,000 Harvard Alumni File Amicus Brief in Funding Freeze Lawsuit

Alumni from every Harvard school and class since 1950 rally behind the University 

by Nina Pasquini

In the Crosshairs

Unprecedented federal actions against research funding, diversity, speech, and more

by John S. Rosenberg

Playing Offense

Making the case for higher education, diversity, the humanities, speech, and more—at a perilous time

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Readers’s views on road safety, protests, settler colonialism, and responding to the Trump administration’s actions against Harvard

Richard P. Lifton Elected to Harvard Corporation

Succeeds fellow life scientist Shirley Tilghman

by John S. Rosenberg

The Government Details Its Demands

What Harvard is being asked to do as the Trump administration threatens research funding

by John S. Rosenberg

The Faculty’s Fears

Arts and Sciences engages with the Trump administration’s assault on higher education.

by John S. Rosenberg

Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding

Part of concerted effort to target campuses labeled antisemitic

by John S. Rosenberg

Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline

After the 2024 encampment, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences committee recommends changes.

by John S. Rosenberg

How to Protest Effectively

A Harvard Kennedy School panel on today’s resistance movements

by Lydialyle Gibson

Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard

Course probes the modern history of the Holy Land.

by Max J. Krupnick