Harvard Is Rejecting More Tenure Cases After Departments Approve Them

The power to grant or deny tenure is a prerogative that faculty have long held sacred. But at Harvard, the final decisions to shut the door on tenure cases have increasingly been made out of departments’ hands — and in direct opposition to the outcome of departmental votes.

Distribution of Tenure Denials

Harvard FAS Plans To Move Offices Out of Rented Space To Reduce Costs

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is working to transfer academic units out of leased offices in Harvard Square to FAS-owned spaces in order to reduce its spending on rent, FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra said during a monthly faculty meeting on Tuesday.

Harvard To Admit 50% Fewer Ph.D. Students in Science, Walking Back Deeper Cuts

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that it would reduce the number of Ph.D. admissions slots for the Science division by 50 percent for the current admissions cycle, walking back plans for even steeper cuts after faculty responded with frustration to the reductions.

State Department Opens Inquiry into Harvard CAMLab After Former Employee Files Complaint

The State Department opened an inquiry into the Harvard Cognitive Aesthetics Media Lab, after a former employee filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that the lab mishandled the admissions process for its visiting scholars program.

Harvard Faculty Disturbed by Revelations of Summers’ ‘Cozy Friendship’ With Epstein

Harvard professors responded with outrage to a tranche of emails showing a close yearslong correspondence between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, reopening an old and bitter divide between Summers and the faculty.

Harvard AAUP Asks Judge To Extend Speech Protections to International Students, Faculty Nationwide

After winning a court victory against the Trump administration in September, a Harvard faculty group is asking a federal judge to extend protections for noncitizens’ speech nationwide.

Harvard Faculty Question Whether Steep Ph.D. Cuts Are Necessary

Some Harvard faculty said they were frustrated with the recent reductions in Ph.D. admission numbers at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, even as some accepted the cuts as a difficult but necessary step for the University's finances.

Harvard’s FAS Is Running a $365 Million Structural Deficit. The Problems Started Well Before Trump.

Underlying financial weaknesses set Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the path toward its estimated $365 million structural deficit, even before the Trump administration pushed its finances to a breaking point, according to projections presented by a faculty committee on Tuesday.

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Runs a $350 Million Structural Deficit

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences is running an estimated structural deficit of approximately $350 million, a major shortfall that will require a dramatic reworking of its budget, FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra announced in an email to affiliates Tuesday afternoon.