“Ideas to Enterprise,” reads the recently updated front page of the official Harvard University website. “Across Harvard’s campus, our students, scholars, and faculty turn ideas into ventures that solve problems and create value.” A series of executive orders and lawsuits in recent months have left the institution struggling to actualize such values. With nearly $3 […]
There’s a place I keep returning to—not physically, but in memory. My freshman dorm room. It had a small bed crammed under a wall of movie posters I don’t relate to anymore. A portable A/C unit the school kept emailing me to remove. The carpet was that dorm-issue kind—brown and blue, the color of nothing […]
Bonjour Friends, Actually, hello. While I arrived at Charles de Gaulle as a girl in an “I Heart NY” tee, I leave as a woman in a beret. To my dismay, my return to the United States of America has arrived. Shameless plug for the Harvard Office of International Education (your girl is *officially* an […]
As of May 15, the Trump administration has frozen about $2.7 billion in federal grants from Harvard University. While the University’s robust endowment should help cushion further cuts, the challenges of digging into such funds leave the institution on unstable fiscal footing. At $53.2 billion, Harvard has the largest endowment across global higher education institutions. […]
Over the past few months, Harvard University has faced significant social, political, and legal turmoil, largely due to targeted challenges from the Trump administration against the school and its policies. The 2025 spring semester brought student movements and potent lawsuits against the federal government—all of which left the campus at the center of national attention. […]
The road curves out ahead of us, the trees pulling long shadows across the asphalt. I’m driving—my dad in the passenger seat, one arm out the window, tapping his fingers on the door in rhythm with the song on the radio. The Stones are playing low, something from “Sticky Fingers” I only ever seem to […]
One of the saddest parts of studying abroad during junior spring is saying goodbye to all the graduating seniors in December instead of May. I found it hard to properly bid adieu to all the wonderful people who shaped my first three years at Harvard—especially those at the Indy. So, to make up for it, […]
In the 24 hours since the Trump administration announced that Harvard would no longer be able to host international enrollees for the 2025-2026 academic year, University affiliates have stood their ground. “We condemn this unlawful and unwarranted action,” University President Alan Garber ’76 wrote in a University-wide message on the morning of May 23. “It […]
On May 23, a federal judge granted Harvard University a temporary restraining order in response to its lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from revoking its Student Exchange and Visitor Program certification. The order came less than two hours after Harvard requested an emergency halt to the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to terminate […]
On May 22, the Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, escalating ongoing tensions between the White House and this Ivy League institution. At a University with approximately 6,800 international enrollees across all its graduate and undergraduate Schools—totaling over a quarter of the institution’s students—this announcement places the status of thousands of […]