Harvard University

Claudine Gay's resignation highlights the trouble with regulating academic writing

4:02pm January 03, 2024

Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism allegations. Experts say improved technology could bring to light more alleged transgressions in past works by other academic leaders.

Jacinda Ardern, pictured last summer, resigned as New Zealand's prime minister and left Parliament earlier this year. "I am incredibly humbled to be joining Harvard University as a fellow," she says.

Ex-New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is chosen for Harvard fellowships

10:23am April 26, 2023

by Ayana Archie

Jacinda Ardern resigned as New Zealand's prime minister and left Parliament earlier this year, saying that she "no longer had enough in the tank" to continue in politics.

Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch.

Harvard restores fellowship for human rights advocate critical of Israeli policies

2:01pm January 20, 2023

by Simone Popperl

After outcry, Harvard restores fellowship for leading human rights advocate who criticized Israeli policies.

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Raquel Coronell Uribe will become the first Latinx president of the Harvard Crimson student newspaper.

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Harvard's 148-year-old student newspaper gets its first Latina president

3:33pm November 15, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

Raquel Coronell Uribe, a history and literature major from Miami, calls the role a "huge" honor: "Even if it took 148 years, I'm thrilled that I get to be in the position to be that first person."

Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow said Thursday that the university will move to end its investments in fossil fuel companies, though stopped short of using the word "divest."

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Harvard University Will Stop Investing In Fossil Fuels After Years Of Public Pressure

8:43pm September 10, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Harvard University says it will stop investing its $41.9 billion endowment in the fossil fuel industry, citing the threat of climate change. Activists have called on the university to do so for years.

Cornel West, here at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in 2016, suggests in his resignation letter that politics were a factor in Harvard University's decision not to extend tenure to him.

Cornel West Has Announced He's Leaving Harvard And Says The School Has Lost Its Way

3:21pm July 13, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

In a resignation letter posted to Twitter on Monday, West says the university is suffering from "intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of deep depths."

A statue of John Harvard, namesake of the university, overlooks the campus earlier this year. Harvard University joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in suing the federal government over its policies on international students Wednesday.

Harvard, MIT Sue Immigration Officials Over Rule Blocking Some International Students

11:45am July 08, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The policy — which bars foreign students unless they have in-person classes — will "create as much chaos for universities and international students as possible," the schools said Wednesday.

A statue of John Harvard, namesake of Harvard University, wears a face mask last month on the school's campus in Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard And Other Universities Turn Down Relief Funds Amid Swell Of Criticism

2:39pm April 23, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

President Trump and others criticized "elite, wealthy institutions" for money allocated to them by a federal package.

Harkness Tower on Yale University's campus in 2016. The Department of Education said Yale failed to disclosed a total of $375 million in foreign money.

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Harvard, Yale Accused Of Failing To Report Hundreds Of Millions In Foreign Donations

4:37pm February 13, 2020

The Ivy League schools have been singled out in a federal crackdown on institutions of higher learning for allegedly not reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign donations.

Producer 9th Wonder speaks with student staff members at The HipHop Archive & Research Institute in Jan. 2018.

Keepers Of The Underground: The Hiphop Archive At Harvard

11:54am September 06, 2018

by The Kitchen Sisters

"In order to be well versed in the culture, you have to be an encyclopedia," 9th Wonder says. "What The HipHop Archive is doing is creating a family tree."

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