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Harvard Management Corporation
Endowment

Harvard Reports First Deficit Since Pandemic in Fiscal Year 2025, Sees 12% Endowment Growth

Harvard reported an operating loss of $113 million — its first budget deficit since 2020 — as its financial footing shakes from disruptions to federal funding, even as the total value of its endowment grew by 11.9 percent to $56.9 billion, according to its fiscal year 2025 financial report.

HMS Holmes Society
Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School Cancels Student Groups’ Pro-Palestine Vigil

Harvard Medical School canceled a pro-Palestine vigil organized by two recognized student groups on Thursday, alleging the groups violated the school’s campus use rules by distributing and posting event flyers without authorization.

Women's Ice Hockey Coach Katey Stone
College

Harvard, Former Women’s Hockey Coach Move to Mediation in Gender Discrimination Suit

Lawyers for Harvard and former women’s hockey coach Katey Stone will move to mediation for a gender discrimination suit filed against the University, according to court documents released on Monday.

QuOffice
College

After QuOffice’s Closure, Its Staff Are No Longer Confidential Resources for Students Reporting Sexual Misconduct

Harvard College’s Office of BGLTQ Student Life staff no longer serve as confidential resources following the office’s dissolution over the summer, narrowing the options available to students who want to discuss sexual harassment or misconduct without notifying the College’s Title IX office.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Politics

A Majority of Frozen Federal Funding Has Been Restored, Harvard Says

Harvard has now received payments on the majority of funding that it lost since the Trump administration froze its access to federal grants this spring, the University notified faculty this month.

HUIT
Central Administration

Harvard Investigating Security Breach After Cybercrime Group Threatens To Release Stolen Data

Harvard is investigating a data breach after a Russian-speaking cybercrime organization claimed it was preparing to release information stolen through a vulnerability in a software suite used by the University.

International Students Reflection in University Hall
Scrutiny

Eight International Students at Harvard, Watching America Close Its Doors

A freshman debate champion wakes up to news of his peers marching the streets of Nepal. A trio of friends become high-profile activists. A sophomore from Jakarta searches for the America she idealized as a child.

Childcare Graphic
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 child care landscape — creating a culture of intense strategization around preschool enrollment.

Science and Engineering Complex
SEAS

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.

Duo Okta Graphic
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.

Pete Hegseth and John Healey
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.”

Winthrop House at UHall Steps Housing Day
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.

Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) Courtyard
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.

Harvard Law School Scalia Papers
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.”

Harvard Law School
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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