FAS Administration


Social Science Dean Lawrence Bobo To Take Unexpected Leave in Spring Semester

Harvard Dean of Social Science Lawrence D. Bobo will take a leave of absence during the spring 2024 semester due to “unanticipated personal matters,” he wrote in an email to Social Science faculty Monday afternoon.


Harvard Denied Its Only Yiddish Professor Tenure. Did the Process Fail Him?

When Yiddish studies professor Saul Noam Zaritt was denied tenure in June at the direction of Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76, Zaritt’s own tenure review committee was stunned. They say Harvard mishandled the case — and left the future of Yiddish instruction in limbo.


Harvard Officials Wanted Harsher Discipline for Student Protesters, Report Shows

Top University officials privately lambasted the schools’ disciplinary committees for not imposing harsher penalties on students who participated in the pro-Palestine protests that rocked Harvard’s campus earlier this year.


No ID Checks, but Harvard ‘Determining Next Steps’ After Second Faculty Study-In

Roughly 35 Harvard faculty members held a silent study-in in Widener Library on Friday afternoon, marking the second time faculty have gathered in the library to denounce the University’s protest restrictions.


Harvard Faculty Appeal Temporary Suspensions From Widener Library

Faculty members who were temporarily banned from Widener Library for participating in a study-in protest appealed their sanctions to Harvard Library, calling their suspensions “unlawful violations” of their contracts.


After Conviction for Lying About China Ties, Ex-Harvard Chemist Gets Approval to Visit Beijing

A federal judge gave former Harvard Chemistry professor Charles M. Lieber permission to visit China for “employment networking” and give a lecture in Beijing — nearly three years after Lieber was convicted for lying to federal investigators about his relationship to China.


Harvard FAS to Review Student Disciplinary Processes After Faculty Backlash

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is reviewing the disciplinary processes of both Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, months after many professors criticized the schools’ sanctions against pro-Palestine protesters as inconsistent and excessive.


FAS Elects 12 Delegates to University-Wide Faculty Senate Planning Body

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences elected 12 delegates for a Harvard-wide faculty senate planning body, making it the third faculty — after the Divinity School and Graduate School of Design — to do so.


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