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Arts Administration in Challenging Times

March 19, 2009 • Breaking News

Michael M. Kaiser, known for steering the Kennedy Center and other troubled arts organizations back to health, shares his secrets with a Harvard audience.

1 Endowment Distribution to Be Reduced 8 Percent; Budget Cuts Loom

March 19, 2009 • Breaking News

Distributions from the endowment will be reduced 8 percent in each of the next two fiscal years; that action sets the stage for significant budget cuts.

4 A Walk through History, with Justice Ginsburg as Guide

March 16, 2009 • Breaking News

The Supreme Court justice speaks at a Radcliffe Institute conference on gender and the law.

Cherry A. Murray Named SEAS Dean

March 10, 2009 • Breaking News

Murray comes to Harvard from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and was previously a senior vice president at Bell Laboratories.

1 Vice President Sally Zeckhauser to Retire

March 9, 2009 • Breaking News

The University’s longest-serving senior administrator, Sally Zeckhauser, vice president for administration, will retire at the end of the academic year.

Stanford Imposes Deeper Cuts, Too

March 9, 2009 • Breaking News

Updated. Citing the deepening economic and financial crises, Stanford has decided to make deeper expense cuts in the next fiscal year; Yale recently imposed deeper cuts, too.

Jim Yong Kim Named Dartmouth President

March 2, 2009 • Breaking News

Kim directs Harvard’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, and is known for his involvement in tuberculosis and AIDS relief work.

Citing Recession, Yale Makes Deeper Cuts

February 25, 2009 • Breaking News

Yale has announced a second, deep set of austerity measures; its reasons for doing so may cast light on the financial choices confronting Harvard.

Faust: University Will Slow Pace of Construction in Allston

February 18, 2009 • Breaking News

Harvard will continue construction through 2009 while examining its options, which include pausing construction entirely.

Early-Retirement Program and Other Cost-Cutting Measures

February 11, 2009 • Breaking News

The University unveiled incentives for staff members to retire early, and the president and Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean discussed other pending financial measures.

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