June 24, 2021 On Friday morning, as customers streamed into the cramped dining room of McKenna’s Cafe in Dorchester, two of the city’s most recognizable leaders sat down for one last breakfast. Amid the clatter of coffee cups and morning din, no one seemed to take much notice as Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and…
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, In the weeks and months ahead, a lawsuit aimed to compromise Harvard’s ability to compose a diverse student body will move forward in the courts and in the media. As the case proceeds, an organization called Students for Fair Admissions—formed in part to oppose Harvard’s commitment to diversity—will seek…
The Library of Congress announced today that it will award to Harvard President Drew Faust the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The $1 million international prize recognizes individuals whose scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has shaped public affairs and civil society, highlighting researchers who have had a…
The Honorable Scott PruittAdministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20460 Re: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259 Dear Mr. Administrator: With significant concern, I offer the following comments in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule, “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science.” Evidence-based research is critical to informed decision-making and the formulation of…
Dear Chairman Grassley, Chairman Goodlatte, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Ranking Member Nadler: We are writing to urge your attention to efforts to provide legal status for those individuals from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan living in the United States under Temporary Protected Status (TPS). As you know, the administration has announced the…
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, On April 16, I wrote to the community about the troubling events culminating in the arrest of a Harvard student by the Cambridge Police Department. Since then, University officials have engaged in an extensive series of conversations with members of the community. Through open and frank dialogue, we have heard expressions…
Dear Colleagues and Friends, I write with the excellent news that Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has accepted my offer to serve as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, effective July 1, 2018….
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Many of you have heard about an incident that occurred Friday night on Massachusetts Avenue, involving interactions between the Cambridge Police Department and a Harvard student in an extreme condition, including his forcible arrest. We do not yet know all the facts, and it will take time before the…
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Harvard’s commitment to excellence in the advancement and dissemination of knowledge rests upon the foundation of the remarkable people who make up this community. We understand it is essential to open our doors widely to talent from all parts of society, including those that have historically been underrepresented on…
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, In light of his announcement earlier today, I write to express my gratitude for Mike Smith’s extraordinary leadership and service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Mike has guided the FAS through more than a decade of remarkable challenge and change, and all of us owe…
