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We join together as a university in deploring the defacing of portraits of African American faculty at the law school. Such acts of hatred are inimical to our most fundamental values and represent an assault on the mutual respect essential to our purposes as a community of learning and inquiry. Cambridge, Mass….

September 1, 2022 Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Yesterday, a number of Harvard students gathered in support and solidarity with those at Yale, the University of Missouri, and elsewhere who have been calling for racial justice and full inclusion on their campuses. Across this University, from Longwood to Cambridge, members of our community have…

Dear Colleagues, Harvard University has been inherently global since its founding. Today, knowledge is increasingly shared across national boundaries, and challenges must be understood in their broadest geographic context.  In order to fully participate in an ever more connected world, Harvard must leverage its extraordinary intellectual and programmatic strengths with a more intentional strategy of…