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Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Lays Off 25% of HUCTW Staff

Harvard will lay off roughly 25 percent of staff represented by its clerical and technical workers’ union at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and reorganize several offices in response to mounting funding pressures, according to the union.

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Politics

‘Education Based on Income’: Cambridge’s Child Care Puzzle

Cambridge’s universal preschool program was a historic investment in early childhood education. But some families are still falling through cracks in the city’s childcare landscape — creating a culture of intense strategization around preschool enrollment.

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College

Harvard Students Find Okta Verify ‘More Confusing’ Than Duo Mobile

Undergraduates said since the mandatory switch to Okta Verify on Sept. 30 they have found the Okta app “more difficult” to navigate, and several said they were frustrated by the change.

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Politics

Before Pete Hegseth Joined Trump’s War on DEI, He Advocated for Educational Equity as a Harvard Student

In his first nine months as Secretary of War, Pete B. Hegseth has railed against “woke garbage” and diversity programs. But in 2013, as a Harvard Kennedy School master’s student, Hegseth advocated for the creation of a public high school in Minnesota that would “emphasize equity” and prioritize a “diverse student body.”

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Student Life

Housing Day To Be Held Friday After Spring Recess in Break From Tradition

Harvard College will hold Housing Day on the Friday following spring break in 2025 — pushing back the annual festivities more than a week past their traditional date on the Thursday before break.

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College

Facemash Reloaded: UT Dallas Student Revives Website to Rank Harvard Students’ Attractiveness

Facemash, a website allowing users to rank the attractiveness of Harvard students, briefly returned to campus on Sunday, nearly 22 years after Facebook founder Mark E. Zuckerberg created the original version.

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Crime

Pellet Gun Incident Involving HLS Prof. Apparently Not Motivated by Antisemitism, Brookline Synagogue Leaders Say

After a Harvard Law School visiting professor was arrested for shooting a pellet gun near a Brookline synagogue last week, synagogue leaders told affiliates in a Sunday email that the incident “does not appear to have been fuelled by antisemitism.”

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Harvard Law School

HLS Visiting Professor Placed on Leave After Arrest For Firing Pellet Gun Near Brookline Synagogue

A visiting professor at Harvard Law School was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation after allegedly firing a pellet gun outside of a Brookline synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur.

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College

Student Employees Left Out of Work and In the Dark After Harvard’s Diversity Office Closures

When Harvard College’s three diversity offices shut their doors in July, their 35 undergraduate interns lost their jobs — and for weeks after the office closures, nobody told them.

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FAS

Harvard FAS To ‘Significantly’ Reduce Graduate Program Admissions Amid Budget Tightening

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will admit new Ph.D. students “at significantly reduced levels” this year as Harvard shrinks its budgets in response to mounting federal funding pressures, according to a Tuesday email from FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra.

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Breaking News

Judge Rules Trump’s Targeting of Pro-Palestine International Students Unconstitutional, Siding With Harvard AAUP

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of international students and professors who participated in pro-Palestine advocacy, handing a victory to a Harvard faculty group that sued this spring.

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Central Administration

Harvard Says Trump Administration Botched Its Antisemitism Findings

Harvard sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services earlier this month, accusing the agency’s civil rights office of twisting facts and misapplying antidiscrimination law in its investigation into antisemitism at the University.

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Central Administration

Trump Claims White House Is Nearing a Deal With Harvard

President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday in the Oval Office that the White House had “reached a deal” with Harvard, before cautioning that the agreement had not been finalized.

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Central Administration

HHS Takes Steps Toward Revoking Harvard’s Access to Federal Grants and Contracts

The Trump administration launched proceedings on Monday that could bar Harvard from doing business with the federal government, opening a new front in its escalating fight with the University just weeks after a federal judge ordered $2.7 billion in frozen research funding restored.

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University Finances

Penny Pritzker Says She Has ‘Absolutely No Idea’ How Trump Talks Will Conclude

Harvard Corporation senior fellow Penny S. Pritzker ’81 said on Sunday that the Trump administration had pushed for a $500 million settlement to resolve its six-month standoff with the University — but cast doubt on whether Harvard was considering the sum.

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