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Following Graduate Admissions Reductions, Faculty Report Difficulties and Concerns | News | The Harvard Crimson

By Earlier this semester, Harvard — and many pockets of the academic world — erupted in controversy after Professor Cornel R. West ’74 threatened to leave Harvard for the second time, after the University allegedly denied his request to be considered for tenure. Ultimately, West — a Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at the Harvard Divinity School and of African and African American Studies in the FAS — did elect to leave Harvard, departing for Union Theological Seminary in New York. West, however, is just one of many Black faculty in recent years who hav...

Harvard will expand its undergraduate housing capacity on and near campus to accommodate “normal housing density” in fall 2021, even as it anticipates the largest matriculating class in its history, administrators wrote in an email to Faculty of Arts and Sciences affiliates Tuesday afternoon. The administrators — University President Lawrence A. Bacow, FAS Dean Claudine Gay, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Emma Dench — also shared that all graduate and undergraduate instruction will take place in the classroom, with the opt...

Harvard administrators outlined responses the University has taken regarding the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein’s ties to Harvard during a monthly meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tuesday. After University President Lawrence S. Bacow initiated a review into Epstein’s ties to Harvard in 2019, the committee recommended in 2020 that Harvard revise its policies concerning external gifts as well as those regarding appointments of visiting fellows. Bacow said Tuesday one of the changes the University made after the report was increasing vetting of external gifts...

The Harvard School of Public Health developed and ran a novel hybrid course this spring in which 16 instructors rotated teaching 3-hour lectures for a class of 34 first-year international students. Last summer, the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement banned international first-year students taking all-online course loads from remaining in the U.S. Organized in response to these federal restrictions, HSPH’s new hybrid course ID 900: “Current Topics in Public Health” enables international first-years to learn in person and thereby live on campus th...