The Undergraduate Council votes to endorse the Fair Harvard Fund, an initiative that aims to establish a Social Choice Fund to assure that alumni donations go to investments approved by environmental, social, and governmental criteria.

The price of a Harvard education continues to rise, with total costs for undergraduates increasing 3.5 percent for the 2012-2013 academic year—to $54,496.

Harvard will sell $1.5 billion in private equity assets, as the Harvard Management Company continues its efforts to reduce the University’s illiquid holdings.

The vast majority—93 percent—of external funding spent by the physics department in fiscal year 2011 came from federal sources, including a number of grants from the Department of Defense.

Harvard faculty continue to look nervously at snacks that disappeared from faculty meetings in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

Harvard Management Company, which oversees the University’s endowment, announced yesterday that it has hired John Devir, a former managing director and head of equity strategies at Barclays Capital, as its managing director of stocks in developed markets.

Harvard students have claimed 10 of the 30 spots for this year’s Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which provide financial assistance to immigrants or children of immigrants who are pursuing graduate studies.

Harvard College tuition and fees will climb 3.8 percent for the next academic year, reaching a total of $52,650.

Nancy E. Laird has been appointed as an Associate Dean of the College and Director of Budgets and Finance, according ...