Category: News and Statements by President Drew Gilpin Faust

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…

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,…

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….

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…

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Harvard and Boston celebrated the opening of Library Park in Allston, a new community space on Harvard-donated land. Complete with fountains, footpaths, and 150 new trees, the 1.74-acre green space is located behind the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library. A hallmark of sustainability, lifelong residents remembered its industrial past, while praising it transformation…

English soccer champions Manchester United made a brief stop at Harvard University as part of their U.S. pre-season tour, during which they’ll face several Major League Soccer teams including the Massachusetts-based New England Revolution. Sir Alex Ferguson led the star-studded squad through Harvard Yard, stopping at the statue of John Harvard for a photograph. Wayne…

The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/89638/civil-war-remembrance…

Panel explores Human Genome Project’s legacy OK, we’re part Neanderthal, and not that much different from chimpanzees after all. We also know that some drugs won’t work on my cancer, even though they might work on yours. And, if you want to find out what your DNA has been saying behind your back, the price…

Harvard experts probe qualities essential to managing well A trip to any bookstore reveals that treatises on leadership are a dime a dozen. And at America’s graduate schools, courses on the subject — in every field from business to public administration to education — are almost as prevalent. But for all the evidence that people…