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Elise A. Spenner

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Politics

Harvard Grad Schools Rebrand Diversity Offices as University Wipes DEI Messaging

Several Harvard graduate schools began shuttering their diversity, equity, and inclusion offices over the past two weeks, continuing the University’s effort to replace DEI programs that the Trump administration has broadly painted as illegal.

Wexner Building at Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard Kennedy School To Lay Off Staff Amid Federal Funding Cuts, Endowment Tax Threats

The Harvard Kennedy School is laying off employees and implementing a slew of cost-cutting measures in response to “significant financial challenges” inflicted by the Trump administration, the school’s dean announced in an email to faculty and staff on Wednesday.

Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard Kennedy School May Allow International Students To Study Online or in Canada

The Harvard Kennedy School may allow international students to study online or complete their degrees at the University of Toronto if they are unable to enter the United States next academic year, the school announced Tuesday.

Melissa Hortman Courtesy Photo
Politics

‘The Bravest Among Us’: HKS Peers and Instructors Remember Melissa Hortman, Slain Minnesota Representative

Minnesota state representative Melissa A. Hortman graduated from a Harvard Kennedy School program in 2018. Former instructors and classmates were left grieving when she was killed by an assassin’s bullets on Saturday.

Ben S. Bernanke '75 Delivers 2008 Class Day Speech
Reunions

How Fed Chair Ben Bernanke ’75 Discovered Economics at Harvard

As a still-undecided sophomore, Ben S. Bernanke ’75 did what hundreds of Harvard students have done for decades: enroll in Economics 10, the school’s introductory economics course sequence. The decision would launch him on his path to leading the Federal Reserve.

Harold Koh by John Harvard Statue
Reunions

‘Be Here Now’: Inside Harold Koh’s Journey From Pinball to Politics

Harold H. Koh started at Harvard as a Physics concentrator — before he went on to become dean of Yale Law School and an advisor to Barack Obama’s State Department.

Christiane Amanpour at HKS Class Day 2025
Commencement

Journalist Christiane Amanpour and HKS Dean Jeremy Weinstein Rally Against Trump at Class Day

The Harvard Kennedy School Class Day — established as a celebration of student accomplishment — amounted to a show of resistance against the Trump administration’s assault on Harvard on Thursday.

Harvard Kennedy School

Former HKS Dean Joseph Nye Remembered as a Preeminent Scholar of International Relations

Nye, a towering scholar and policymaker who spent the last 60 years at the center of international security debates in Washington and Cambridge, died Tuesday. He was 88.

Joseph Nye IOP Forum
Harvard Kennedy School

Former HKS Dean, Leading International Relations Scholar Joseph Nye Dead at 88

Former Harvard Kennedy School dean Joseph S. Nye Sr. died at 88 on Tuesday. Nye, who served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs under President Bill Clinton, was one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary international relations theory.

Danielle Allen and Curtis Yarvin Debate at the Faculty Club
Politics

Far-Right Thinker Curtis Yarvin Argues for Remaking of Harvard at Faculty Club Debate

The far-right thinker Curtis Yarvin joined University Professor Danielle Allen for a debate Monday evening, where Yarvin in turn derided Harvard as “an essentially oligarchic institution” and suggested a reformed University could lie at the foundation of a new political order.

Danielle Allen and Curtis Yarvin Debate at the Faculty Club
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Danielle Allen and Curtis Yarvin Debate at the Faculty Club

University Professor Danielle Allen responds to guest Curtis Yarvin in a debate moderated by David A. Vega ’24. The debate was held at Harvard’s faculty club.

Harvard Institute of Politics Sign
Student Groups

IOP Upgrades Environmental Action Coalition to Pilot Program

The Institute of Politics leadership voted narrowly last week to upgrade the Environmental Action Coalition to a pilot program, bringing the total number of IOP programs to 17.

Harvard Kennedy School Littauer Center
Harvard Kennedy School

As HKS Dean, Jeremy Weinstein Courts the Faculty

When Jeremy Weinstein arrived at the Harvard Kennedy School in July 2024, the first thing he did was meet with each member of the school’s nearly 200-person faculty in their office.

Students Studying on Steps of University Hall
Faculty

Harvard Pauses Merit-Based Wage Raises in Latest Austerity Measure

Harvard has paused merit-based raises for faculty and non-union staff for the 2025-26 fiscal year, citing financial pressure in light of the White House’s funding siege.

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Flyby Blog

Eavesdropping on Your Khurana Conversations

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