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More Teaching Assistants Needed For Taylor Swift Course At Harvard
A new Harvard course called "Taylor Swift and Her World" is so popular that its professor is publicly calling for…
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Claudine Gay Resigns As President of Harvard
Amidst a continuing plagiarism scandal and fallout from her statements after the attack on Israel by Hamas in October 2023, Harvard president…
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Marianne Williamson Coming To Harvard This Month
One of President Joe Biden's presidential primary challengers plans to be in the Bay State this month. Progressive Democrat Marianne…
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Union Vote By Undergraduate Workers At Harvard Hampered By ‘Dead Names’
Undergraduate students at Harvard College who work part-time for the school have voted overwhelmingly to form a union. The tally as…
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Elizabeth Warren Wants Harvard To Cut Certain Sports
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) has an idea to make Harvard University more diverse: cut certain sports teams. Warren expressed…
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Harvard Law School Students Stage Walk-Out of Pro-Life Panel Discussion
About 75 students at Harvard Law School staged a walk-out of a pro-life panel discussion a few minutes after it…
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Bill de Blasio Joining Harvard Institute of Politics
Former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is set to join the Harvard Institute of Politics as a visiting fellow for…
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Only 3 Percent of Harvard Faculty Identify As Conservative, Survey Finds
A little less than 3 percent of faculty members at Harvard University identify as conservative, according to a survey performed by the…
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More Than One-Third of Harvard Faculty Not Born in the United States
About 35 percent of the faculty of Harvard University is foreign-born, the school's president said. Lawrence Bacow, president of…
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Washington Post (and Former Boston Globe) Editor Marty Baron To Be Harvard Commencement Speaker
The executive editor of The Washington Post, which adopted the motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" three months after Donald Trump…
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Some Harvard Business School Professors Oppose Divesting From Oil and Natural Gas Companies
Several professors at Harvard Business School have expressed opposition to trying to cajole the university that employs them to sell off stock…
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Amherst College Students Greet Former AG Jeff Sessions With “Stink Bomb,” Protests, And Accusations Of “White Supremacy”
Jeff Sessions' recent April 24 visit to Amherst College led a protester to set off a "stink bomb" in…
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U.S. Senator Calls on Harvard To Abandon Anti-Single-Sex-Organizations Policy
Indiana U.S. Senator Mike Braun has called on Harvard to reconsider its policy of withholding certain benefits to students who belong…
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Opioid Activists Want Drug Marketer’s Name Gone From Harvard Building; Widow Says He’s Not To Blame
Dozens of protesters from opioid-death grief groups showed up outside a Harvard art museum calling for the university to remove the…
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Professor Says Harvard Students Too Good To Clean Other Students’ Bathrooms
A Temple University professor of higher education has suggested that a program at Harvard College in which undergraduates clean the bathrooms of…
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Protected-Class Graduate Students Not Getting Enough Love From Harvard
Harvard graduate students who belong to four identity-politics groups are complaining that several college officials haven't supported them enough.…
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New Harvard President Holds Line on Divesting From Fossil-Fuel Stocks
Harvard University president Lawrence Bacow says the school with the world's largest educational endowment will not divest its stock holding…
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Harvard Doing Nothing To Cure ‘Toxic Space’ for Homosexual and Transgender Graduate Students, Activists Say
Harvard University offers no paid staff to assist and advise graduate students who are homosexual, bisexual, or transgender and also doesn'…
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Brett Kavanaugh Won’t Return To Teach At Harvard Law School
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh won't teach a winter term course at Harvard Law School as he has…
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Harvard Dorm To Re-Examine 38-Year-Old ‘Drag Night’ Tradition
A committee at one of the undergraduate dormitories at Harvard College is considering whether to continue running "Drag Night." Adams…
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Harvard Raises $9.62 Billion in Capital Campaign
Harvard raised $9.62 billion during a recently concluded five-year capital campaign, setting a new record for fund raising by an…
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The Heck With You, Harvard: All-Male Student Social Club Decides Not To Allow Females After All
An all-male so-called "final club" at Harvard College has decided not to allow female undergraduates to join, reversing…
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Former Harvard Chaplain Fending Off Calls To Resign As Bishop
Bishop Richard Malone is saying no to calls for him to resign as head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo because…
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Harvard Recognizes New Graduate Students Union
Harvard University will bargain with a newly formed union representing graduate students, the school's president said. Drew Gilpin Faust, president…
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Harvard President Forms Committee To Study Arrest of Naked Student on Drugs
The outgoing president of Harvard University has formed a committee of four professors and three administrators to study the events that led…
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Harvard Graduate Students Unionizing Vote: ‘Very Liberal’ Beat ‘Liberal’
Graduate students at Harvard University are generally left of center, but how far left of center helped determine the outcome of the…
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Harvard Law School Replaces Slave-Owning Family Crest With … Nothing
Two years after Harvard Law School dumped the crest of a prominent New England family from its seal because the family owned…
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Cambridge Mayor Calls Video Of Black Harvard Student’s Arrest ‘Disturbing’
CAMBRIDGE — Police have released an onlooker's video depicting the takedown-style arrest of a naked black Harvard student police say…
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Investor Gives $25 Million To Harvard Divinity School
Harvard Divinity School has received a $25 million donation to renovate its main campus building. Investor James R. Swartz, who graduated from…
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Matchmaking Survey at Harvard To Add ‘Non-Binary’ Option To ‘Man,’ ‘Woman’
The survey, by the Harvard Computer Society, is called Datamatch, and aims to help Harvard undergraduates find that special someone around Valentine&…
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Asian Harvard Freshman Finds Identity Politics Crashes, Burns Around Dinner Table At Home
The student's appeal to race-based grievances didn't get far with his parents, who came to America during…
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Harvard Commits To Paying Half Cost of Commuter Rail Station in Allston
Some Massachusetts politicians are suggesting Harvard University pay the whole cost of building so-called West Station, a proposed commuter rail station…
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No More Legacy Preferences at Dartmouth?
The student daily newspaper, The Dartmouth, is calling for an end to preferences for children of alumni of Dartmouth College.…
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CIA Director Cancels Appearance at Harvard Over Appointment of Transgender Military Leaker
Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was scheduled to speak at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy…
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Professors Protesting Trump’s DACA Decision Block Mass. Ave. in Harvard Square, Get Arrested
More than 20 professors from Harvard and other colleges in the area got arrested for blocking Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. They were…
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Harvard College’s Incoming Class Majority Non-White
About 50.8 percent of the incoming freshmen aren't white; it's the first time since 1636 that a…
