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Campus Climate

Guillermo: Harvard Continues to Nickel and Dime Striking Food Workers

Running a college or university isn’t always about the book learning.

October 24, 2016

Campus Climate

Harvard Students Lead Sit-in to Back Striking Dining Workers

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Students at Harvard University are staging a campus sit-in to support the school’s striking cafeteria workers. Dozens of students walked out of classes on Monday and marched to a nearby building where Harvard officials and a labor union for campus dining workers have been in negotiations. The students said they refuse to […]

October 24, 2016

Students

Harvard Graduate Students Reach Deal to Vote on Unionization

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Graduate students at Harvard University are organizing an election to decide whether to unionize. A group of graduate students reached an agreement with Harvard’s administration on Tuesday to hold an election on Nov. 16 and 17. The vote will allow Harvard’s 3,500 teaching and research assistants to decide whether they will be […]

October 19, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Georgetown, Harvard Embrace Role in Slavery Atonement

Colleges and universities have a significant role to play in investigating and reconciling the nation’s legacy of slavery, the presidents of Georgetown University and Harvard University said Thursday.

September 29, 2016

Students

CEO of Harvard’s $37B Endowment Resigns for Personal Reasons

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ― The chief of Harvard University’s $37 billion endowment is resigning after less than two years at the helm. Harvard Management Company, the university’s investment arm, announced on Wednesday that President and CEO Stephen Blyth will resign immediately for unspecified personal reasons. He started the job in 2015. Blyth took a medical leave […]

July 27, 2016

African-American

Study: Blacks Less Likely to be Shot by Police Than Whites

There is no evidence of racial discrimination in officer-involved shootings, according to a recent study by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer, Jr.

July 11, 2016

Students

Secret Harvard Club Breaks Silence, Followed by an Apology

BOSTON — A Boston business chief who broke the public silence of a 225-year-old Harvard all-male club apologized after critics said his comments blamed women for sexual assault. Charlie Storey, the president of Boston’s Harpoon Brewery, wrote a letter to Harvard’s student newspaper defending the school’s social clubs for refusing to accept women. He was […]

April 14, 2016

African-American

Walter Leonard: A Legendary Leader for All Seasons

Walter Leonard, who died Tuesday at age 86, was one of the pioneering education leaders who successfully paved the way for Blacks to hold leadership roles at both elite historically Black and White institutions.

December 10, 2015

Opinion

Where Are All the Black College Faculty?

It’s an uncomfortable and unacceptable shame ― nearly two decades into a new millennium ― that the work to integrate college and university faculty and administration remains undone.

November 11, 2015

Asian American Pacific Islander

Asian American Groups File Complaint Against Harvard

A coalition of more than 60 Asian American organizations filed an official federal complaint against Harvard University on Friday.

May 17, 2015