Harvard University received 5% fewer undergraduate applications for the class of 2028 compared to the previous year, marking the lowest number since 2020. The institution accepted 1,937 students, with an admission rate of 3.58%, up from the previous year. The decline comes after controversies including antisemitism scandals and the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay. Despite the increase in acceptance rate, Harvard remains competitive. The Supreme Court's ruling against race-conscious admissions policies also impacted the university. Wealthy families are paying high fees for college admission consultants, highlighting the competitive nature of college admissions.
Jewish students from across the country addressed members of Congress regarding rampant antisemitism they are facing at their college campuses. (Credit: House Committee on Education & the Workforce) Harvard University has submitted over a thousand documents to the House Education Committee in compliance with a subpoena against the Ivy League college. The school handed over approximately 1,500 documents relevant to the ongoing probe to the committee on Monday. "Harvard denounced antisemitism on our campus and have made clear that the university will continue to take actions to combat antisemitism in any form," a Harvard spokesperson said of the ongoing probe. The spokesperson continued, "This includes ongoing efforts to engage with and learn from students, faculty and staff to identify the causes of antisemitic behaviors and address them when they occur on our campus.
Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, who has donated over $500 million to Harvard University, has stopped further contributions, citing frustration with American universities and their failure to produce future leaders. Griffin expressed concerns about the direction of elite schools and their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. He criticized Harvard and other top schools for deviating from their role as educators and focusing on microaggressions and a DEI agenda with no real endgame. Other major Harvard donors, including Leslie Wexner and Len Blavatnik, have also halted donations.
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard College is Harvard University's traditional undergraduate program, offering AB (Bachelor of Arts) and SB (Bachelor of Science) degrees. It is highly selective, with fewer than four percent of applicants being offered admission as of 2022.Harvard College students participate in over 450 extracurricular organizations and nearly all live on campus. First-year students reside in or near Harvard Yard and upperclass students reside in other on-campus housing.
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.Its influence, wealth, and rankings have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.Harvard's founding was authorized by the Massachusetts colonial legislature, "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches". Though never formally affiliated with any denomination, in its early years Harvard College primarily trained Congregational clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century. By the 19th century, Harvard emerged as the most prominent academic and cultural institution among the Boston elite. Following the American Civil War, under President Charles William Eliot's long tenure (1869–1909), the college developed multiple affiliated professional schools that transformed the college into a modern research university. In 1900, Harvard co-founded the Association of American Universities. James B. Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II, and liberalized admissions after the war.The university is composed of ten academic faculties and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers study in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate academic disciplines, and other faculties offer only graduate degrees, including professional degrees. Harvard has three main campuses:the 209-acre (85 ha) Cambridge campus centered on Harvard Yard; an adjoining campus immediately across Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston; and the medical campus in Boston's Longwood Medical Area. Harvard's endowment is valued at $50.7 billion, making it the wealthiest academic institution in the world. Endowment income enables the undergraduate college to admit students regardless of financial need and provide financial aid with no loans. According to the American Library Association, Harvard University has the fourth-largest library by volumes held in the United States.Harvard alumni, faculty, and researchers have included 188 living billionaires, 8 U.S. presidents, numerous heads of state, founders of notable companies, Nobel laureates, Fields Medalists, members of Congress, MacArthur Fellows, Rhodes Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Turing Award Recipients, Pulitzer Prize winners, and Fulbright Scholars; by most metrics, Harvard ranks among the top globally in each of these categories. Additionally, students and alumni have won 10 Academy Awards and 110 Olympic medals (46 gold).
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman criticizes Harvard University for inviting Dalal Saeb Iriqat, a controversial Palestinian scholar, to speak at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Fetterman expresses his appalment at Iriqat's remarks, in which she justified Hamas' October attacks on Israel and blamed the Israeli government for the resulting deaths and abductions. Fetterman, known for his support of Israel, distances himself from the left wing of the Democratic Party. Harvard has been facing criticism for its handling of anti-Semitism on its campus and its invitation to Iriqat exacerbates the situation.
On December 5, 2023, the United States House Committee on Education & the Workforce held a hearing on antisemitism on college campuses. The committee called a few university leaders to testify, including the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.In the widely televised hearing, the presidents answered questions about their schools’ policies, including those on antisemitism. After the hearing, the committee called for the resignation of the presidents, and announced a Congressional investigation "with the full force of subpoena power" into the same issues.The following week, Liz Magill, president of Penn, submitted her resignation, partly in response to backlash resulting from the hearing.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, the chair of the House education committee, has issued subpoenas to Harvard University in the committee's investigation into antisemitism on campus. Foxx expressed concern over Harvards document production, calling it grossly insufficient. The committee has requested various documents related to antisemitic incidents on campus, including board meeting minutes following attacks on Israel, reports of incidents since January 2021, and internal communication among the institution's leaders. Harvard has until March 4 to turn over the requested documents.
Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.Each class in the three-year JD program has approximately 560 students, which is among the largest of the top 150 ranked law schools in the United States. The first-year class is broken into seven sections of approximately 80 students, who take most first-year classes together. Aside from the JD program, Harvard also awards both LLM and SJD degrees.HLS is home to the world's largest academic law library. The school has an estimated 115 full-time faculty members. According to Harvard Law's 2020 ABA-required disclosures, 99% of 2019 graduates passed the bar exam. The school's graduates accounted for more than one-quarter of all Supreme Court clerks between 2000 and 2010, more than any other law school in the United States.
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It owns Harvard Business Publishing, which publishes business books, leadership articles, case studies, and Harvard Business Review, a monthly academic business magazine. It is also home to the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center, the school's primary library.
The list of Harvard University alumni includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with Harvard University. For a list of notable non-graduates of Harvard, see notable non-graduate alumni of Harvard. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University.Eight Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Bush graduated from Harvard Business School, Hayes and Obama from Harvard Law School, and the others from Harvard College.Over 150 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as alumni, researchers or faculty.
Harvard University has submitted a trove of documents to House lawmakers investigating the plagiarism scandal surrounding former President Claudine Gay. The documents offer a detailed glimpse into Harvard's review of the allegations, including a chronology of the review. The documents also name the four members of a Harvard Corporation subcommittee formed to weigh the charges against Gay. Harvard began its review on Oct 24 when a New York Post reporter contacted the university about allegations of plagiarism.
The history of Harvard University begins in 1636, when Harvard College was founded in the young settlement of New Towne in Massachusetts, which had been settled in 1630. New Towne was organized as a town on the founding of the university, and changed its name two years later to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in honor of the city in England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.In the late 18th century, as Harvard began granting higher degrees, it began to be called Harvard University, with Harvard College referring exclusively to its undergraduate program. The university's stature became national, then international, as a dozen graduate and professional schools were formed alongside the nucleus undergraduate College. Historically influential in national roles are the schools of medicine (1782), law (1817) and business (1908) as well as the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1890).For centuries, Harvard graduates dominated Massachusetts' clerical and civil ranks. Since the late 19th century, Harvard has been one of the most prestigious schools in the world, with the largest library system and financial endowment.
Claudine Gay (born 1970) is an American political scientist and academic administrator who is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard. Gay's research addresses American political behavior, including voter turnout and politics of race and identity.From July 1, 2023, until January 2, 2024, Gay was the 30th president of Harvard University. She became the first Black president of Harvard after having served as the dean of Social Sciences and the dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In December 2023, Gay and two other university presidents faced pressure from the public and from a Congressional committee to resign, over responses to antisemitism on their campuses. Gay also faced accusations of plagiarism, including a probe by the same committee. The following month she resigned from the presidency.
The Harvard University endowment, valued at $49.444 billion as of June 30, 2022, is the largest academic endowment in the world. Its value increased by over 10 billion dollars in fiscal year 2021, ending the year with its largest sum in history. Along with Harvard's pension assets, working capital, and non-cash gifts, the endowment is managed by Harvard Management Company, Inc. (HMC), a Harvard-owned investment management company.
Harvard-Westlake School is an independent, co-educational university preparatory day school consisting of two campuses located in Los Angeles, California, with approximately 1,600 students enrolled in grades seven through twelve. Its two predecessor organizations began as for-profit schools before turning non-profit, and eventually merging. It is not affiliated with Harvard University despite being named after it.The school has two campuses, the middle school campus in Holmby Hills and the high school, or what Harvard-Westlake refers to as their Upper School, in Studio City. It is a member of the G30 Schools group.
Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, a Harvard professor, was fired for supporting the Great Barrington Declaration and criticizing US Covid measures. He highlighted Sweden's low excess mortality and accused Harvard of ignoring Swedish data. The university clarified that hospital-employed faculty, like Kulldorff, have their academic appointments end with hospital employment. Kulldorff had compared children wearing masks to the Taliban's treatment of women and controversially suggested unvaccinated Americans could achieve herd immunity in six months.
The president of Harvard University is the chief administrator of Harvard University and the ex officio president of the Harvard Corporation. Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to the president the day-to-day running of the university.Harvard's current interim president is Alan Garber, who took office on January 2, 2024, following the resignation of Claudine Gay.
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed as George Andreou as director.The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018.Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty.The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009.
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