Harvard is expanding campus security measures ahead of the 2026–27 academic year, including plans to install additional security cameras outside academic buildings and throughout the River and Quad residential areas. The University has not announced when installation will begin, though administrators have described the expansion as part of a broader effort to modernize campus security […]
The U.S. Supreme Court’s term ended on June 30 with the release of seven high-profile decisions. One of the most controversial decisions was Watson v. Republican National Committee, which allowed Mississippi to continue counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days later. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 on the decision, […]
Trading Senior Class Committee events and final exams for a different kind of cumulative project, the 2026 English Undergraduate Oration Speaker has had a distinct senior week experience from their peers. Noah Eckstein ’26 will deliver one of three orations by memory on Thursday, May 28, 2026, during the College’s 375th commencement exercises, along with […]
The Franciscan Poor Clare Nuns of Boston have been attempting to redevelop their old monastery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, into housing since 2023. Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, the nature preserve next door, has consistently blocked these plans due to concerns about which buildings and residents would occupy the site. On April 13, the nuns sent a […]
In 2025, Harvard University had to completely reevaluate the way its endowment is used. Harvard’s endowment has historically sought high-return investments in order to sustain annual withdrawals for University operations. In 2025, however, shifts in the national policy landscape—namely, higher tax rates and the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze federal funding—have forced Harvard’s endowment to […]
On April 30, 2026, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy Jason Furman ’92 was announced as the next co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, previously held by former Charles W. Eliot University Professor and Harvard University President Emeritus Larry Summers ’82, who resigned from the University following the release of […]
After a week of campaigning and outreach across Harvard’s campus, Zach Berg ’28 and Daniel Zhao ’28 were elected the Harvard Undergraduate Association Student Body co-presidents on April 18. They will serve during the upcoming 2026-2027 academic year. As they step into this role, Berg and Zhao have plans to increase funding to student clubs, […]
The Harvard Graduate Students Union–United Auto Workers picketed in Harvard Yard on April 26 and 27 in the midst of Harvard College’s Visitas weekend, shifting the College’s atmosphere for prospective students and families. Some strikers circled outside the Science Center with signs and megaphones while other union members offered informational flyers to passers-by, urging admitted […]
On Sunday, April 26, Harvard College welcomed over 1,300 admitted students and their family members to campus for two days of the annual Visitas admitted-students weekend. Programming gave prospective undergraduates insight into life at the College through the Visitas Academic Fair, club and departmental info sessions, overnight stays with current students, and attending classes for […]
On April 22, Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum hosted a conversation between Margaret Spellings, the U.S. Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009, and John King ’96, the U.S. Secretary of Education from 2016 to 2017. The forum was moderated by Virginia Secretary of […]