Dear Members of the Harvard Community: Earlier this month, the Harvard Library Board recommended a strategic direction and set of overarching goals for the Harvard Library, including an outline for an organizational design to support a more unified University-wide library system. As we move to this new stage of the Library transition, about which you’ll…
Harvard’s ties to India
Visit by President Faust highlights region’s growing importance…
Drew Gilpin Faust: President of Harvard, Civil War scholar
Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/01/15/drew-gilpin-faust-president-harvard-civil-war-scholar/ZDc6GGpNazyT9PeivdcHjJ/story.html…
Harvard marks 375th anniversary with lectures
Boston Globe http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/01/11/harvard_announces_free_lecture_series_at_libraries_to_mark_375th_anniversary/ Cambridge, Mass….
Women in Leadership: Drew Gilpin Faust
https://archive.org/details/WETA_20120116_233000_Nightly_Business_Report/start/180/end/240 Nightly Business Report…
Message from President Faust on Clayton Spencer appointment
Dear Colleagues: It is with both joy and some sadness that I write to tell you that our colleague Clayton Spencer has been elected president of Bates College, effective July 1, 2012. Bates has made a brilliant choice. Clayton has served four Harvard presidents, arriving in Massachusetts Hall in 1997 and assuming her current role…
A Message from the President
Dear Members of the Harvard Community: Over the past twelve days, I have heard from many members of our community about events related to the national Occupy movement, Occupy Harvard, the encampment in Harvard Yard, and the judgments we’ve made at the University related to access to the Yard. As we approach the Thanksgiving break,…
Innovative teaching and learning
Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser have given Harvard University $40 million to establish a new initiative that will support innovative teaching and learning across the University. Download grant guidelines » (pdf) A gift of $40 million supports new University-wide initiative for innovation in learning and teaching » Cambridge, Mass….
Roundtable airs immigration, research funding issues
Business, university leaders suggest policies to ensure U.S. leadership Alvin Powell Harvard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of business and university leaders called on the U.S. government Wednesday to fix broken immigration policies that are interfering with efforts to recruit the world’s best and brightest. With federal budget cuts looming, the group also…