Hoekstra Defends CMES Dismissals at Faculty Meeting, but Wavers on Harvard’s Next Move
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra stood by the decision to dismiss the director and associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies last week at a Tuesday FAS meeting.
Khurana Suggests Trump Admin Is Using Antisemitism Fears As Pretext for Campaign Against Higher Ed
Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana said at a Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on Tuesday that the federal government has weaponized genuine concerns about campus antisemitism to justify its attacks on higher education.
The FAS Dean Told Centers To Comply With Classroom Norms Committee Report. The Committee’s Co-Chair Was Surprised.
History professor Maya R. Jasanoff ’96, who co-chaired the Classroom Social Compact Committee, was caught off guard when FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra cited the CSCC’s report to justify requiring FAS center directors to show their centers promote viewpoint diversity.
Harvard Opposes Plaintiffs’ Motion To Remain Unnamed in Kestenbaum Suit
Harvard filed its opposition in court on Friday to a motion to allow two plaintiffs to proceed pseudonymously as they seek to join Harvard Divinity School graduate Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum’s ongoing Title VI lawsuit against the University.
Republican and Democratic Students Go Head-to-Head at Debate Night
In a debate between the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club, members from both organizations discussed their party’s stance on economics, foreign policy, and immigration on Apr 1.
Harvard AAUP Asks For Injunction To Halt Trump Administration Attempts To Deport Students, Faculty
The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors filed a motion on Tuesday for an injunction to pause the Trump administration’s efforts to deport noncitizen students and faculty for expressing pro-Palestine views while their lawsuit continues.
Satouri, Egi Elected as HLS Student Government Co-Presidents
Salah-Dean N. Satouri and Christopher E. Egi ’18 were elected Harvard Law School student government co-presidents on Tuesday night, marking a win for free speech activists at HLS.
Republican and Democratic Students Go Head-to-Head at Debate Night
In a debate between the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club, members from both organizations discussed their party’s stance on economics, foreign policy, and immigration on Apr 1.
Harvard AAUP Asks For Injunction To Halt Trump Administration Attempts To Deport Students, Faculty
The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors filed a motion on Tuesday for an injunction to pause the Trump administration’s efforts to deport noncitizen students and faculty for expressing pro-Palestine views while their lawsuit continues.
Satouri, Egi Elected as HLS Student Government Co-Presidents
Salah-Dean N. Satouri and Christopher E. Egi ’18 were elected Harvard Law School student government co-presidents on Tuesday night, marking a win for free speech activists at HLS.
Human Evolutionary Biology Concentration Will Be Renamed This Summer
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the academic year rolls over — the concentration will now be known as Human Biology, Behavior, and Evolution.
5 HUA Presidential Tickets Debate Student Issues to Nearly Empty Audience
Just hours before voting opened for the Harvard Undergraduate Association elections, 10 candidates vying for the co-presidency went head to head in a sparsely attended debate hosted by the Harvard Political Review.
Harvard Professor Questions Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Application at HLS Talk
Harvard Law School professor W. Neil Eggleston — former President Barack Obama’s White House Counsel and a member of President Bill Clinton’s Counsel Office — discussed President Donald Trump’s executive authority to trigger the Alien Enemies Act without following due process at a Tuesday lunch talk.
Fifteen Questions: Alison Frank Johnson on the Power of Stories, Lacrosse, and Why She Speaks Up
The Germanic Languages and Literature department chair sat down with Fifteen Minutes to talk about how history enables reasoned debate, her research on post-war Germany, and her most recent reads.
Can Hopi Hoekstra Have It Both Ways?
As Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra has found repeatedly, it’s hard to simultaneously serve Harvard, the corporation churning through the news cycle, and Harvard, the collective of researchers and students filling its classrooms and labs.
An Aviation Paradise
“Traditionally, you don’t think of aviation as necessarily an interest or topic because you would write someone off as an avgeek,” he tells me. “You just embrace the identity. I mean, I love planes.”
300 Protesters Rally Against Trump, Garber, and Leadership Changes to University Centers
In the largest Harvard pro-Palestine rally this year, nearly 300 protesters marched from the Science Center, down Massachusetts Avenue, and through Widener Gate on Tuesday to protest the University “complying with fascism” and shake-ups at major academic centers on religion and the Middle East.
The FAS Dean Told Centers To Comply With Classroom Norms Committee Report. The Committee’s Co-Chair Was Surprised.
History professor Maya R. Jasanoff ’96, who co-chaired the Classroom Social Compact Committee, was caught off guard when FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra cited the CSCC’s report to justify requiring FAS center directors to show their centers promote viewpoint diversity.
Harvard Opposes Plaintiffs’ Motion To Remain Unnamed in Kestenbaum Suit
Harvard filed its opposition in court on Friday to a motion to allow two plaintiffs to proceed pseudonymously as they seek to join Harvard Divinity School graduate Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum’s ongoing Title VI lawsuit against the University.
