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Harvard Financial Aid Thresholds, 2004-2024

Harvard Cost of Attendance, 2004-2024

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Funding Fears Disrupt Hiring, Grad Admissions at Harvard

Funding Fears Disrupt Hiring, Grad Admissions at Harvard

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Judge Blocks Trump’s Grant Freeze, Garber Warns Some Research May Halt Without Federal Funding

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Funding Freeze

Schwarzman Scholars 2025-26

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CPS Projected Enrollment, 2019-2030

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Ten Stories That Shaped 2024

At Harvard, 2024 began with an ending — the chaotic close of Claudine Gay’s short-lived presidency. It would not be a quiet year. Pro-Palestine student protesters staged an encampment in Harvard Yard. Congress expanded its investigation into campus antisemitism, issuing threats alongside blistering reports. Amid it all, Alan M. Garber ’76 quietly ascended from the interim presidency to a permanent post at Harvard’s helm. Here, The Crimson looks back at 10 stories that shaped the University, and Cambridge, in 2024.

Letter from Faculty to Garber, Manning About Zaritt

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McKrell to Lead The Crimson’s 152nd Guard

McKenna E. McKrell ’26 will lead The Harvard Crimson’s 152nd guard as its next president, becoming the first member of the paper’s editorial board to serve in the role since 2017.

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Harvard Faculty Overwhelmingly Donated to Democrats Ahead of 2024 Election

Members of Harvard’s governing boards and faculty donated more than $2.3 million to political candidates and causes ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a Crimson analysis found.

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