University News


A New Chapter for Harvard Arts

The Office for the Arts turns 50, and its longtime director steps down.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard, Yale Students Delay Second Half of The Game

Student protestors for fossil-fuel divestment delay the second half of The Game.

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard Explores Slavery Connections Further

The president announces a $5-million initiative.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Graduate Students Are Getting Ready to Strike

After more than a year negotiating, the union sets a deadline of December 3. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

A First-Gen First

Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”

by John S. Rosenberg

Can the Catholic Church Help Explain Western Psychology?

A social-science analysis of how Catholicism transformed Western culture

by Drew Pendergrass

Nitin Nohria to Conclude Business School Deanship

Will step down at the end of this academic year

by John S. Rosenberg

An Overseers Challenge Slate—and More on Fossil-Fuel Divestment

Young alumni and others advance an agenda of governance change and divestment from fossil-fuel investments.

Debating Divestment in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

A formal, docketed discussion as proponents of divestment intensify their campaign 

by John S. Rosenberg

A Commitment to Radicalism

A Radcliffe Institute conference looks back on the legacy of activist icon Angela Davis and ahead to freedom struggles at Harvard and around the globe.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Medicine for an Ailing Democracy

How to reform voting and elections in the United States to create a representative democracy

by Jonathan Shaw