Harvard maintains a pair of committees that together play a central role in the University’s consideration of matters of shareholder responsibility. These are the Corporation Committee on Shareholder ...

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, I wrote in August 2024 to let you know that Alan Garber, then serving as Harvard’s interim president, would assume ...

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, A few hours ago, the US District Court granted Harvard’s motion for summary judgment, finding that the federal government’s freeze of University research funding ...

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Last night, the White House issued a proclamation suspending entry to the United States for any international student studying at Harvard University on an F or J ...

We write today to provide an update on the work we must do together to address the financial challenges arising from ongoing shifts in federal regulatory and fiscal policy. As you know, the federal ...

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, In April, the Institutional Voice Working Group was established to consider whether and when our institution should issue official statements on publicly salient ...

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Earlier this morning, the protesters agreed to end the encampment in Harvard Yard. Now that the area is being cleared and in line with the conversation I had ...

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Yesterday, the federal government announced that it has revoked Harvard’s certification under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) and stripped the ...

Family, friends, colleagues, students and postdocs, alumni, distinguished guests. I stand before you today humbled by the prospect of leading Harvard, emboldened by the trust you have placed in me, ...

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Earlier today, the federal government’s task force to combat antisemitism issued a letter putting at risk almost $9 billion in support of research at Harvard and ...

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Following today’s announcement, I write with a simple message of gratitude for the opportunity to lead Harvard as your president for the next three years.

Good afternoon. My remarks at this moment in our Commencement rituals are officially titled a “Report to the Alumni.” The first time I delivered them, in 2008, I was the only obstacle between all of ...