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At a summit of university presidents, the talk was about Harvard and its plummeting reputation.
Claudine Gay is not the real story. Academics debase their profession when they redefine plagiarism to suit their politics.
When Bill Ackman, a financier who got rich betting against companies’ stocks, decided to wage a battle against Harvard’s president, he relied on a strategy that earned him a reputation as one of the most ruthless investors on Wall Street.
The principle is highly valued by many at American universities, but critics say it is sometimes invoked to dodge repercussions.
Legacy policies threaten the legitimacy of institutions that claim to promote admissions based on merit and to value diversity.
Change them, and you change America.
Many first-generation, low-income Harvard students feel that the elite institution has failed them.
In a Q&A session, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bharat Anand discusses how Harvard is planning for a fall semester largely online.
The most profound lesson for me of these past two years is that alumni and students could come together across generations, across race and ethnicity, religion, gender and across all the other boundaries that can divide us to fight for what’s right. Today’s students are better off with the splendid diversity around them. And if they can stay united, maybe they will finally upend the status quo and bring us closer to a society that truly offers equal opportunity for all. That’s the real American dream my parents handed me when they left everything they knew on the far side of the Pacific Ocean more than 60 years ago. It wasn’t about getting into Harvard, and it shouldn’t be.
Larry Bacow, President of Harvard University, shares his thoughts on the future of higher education.
The Trump administration's legal brief comes as a lawsuit against the university is heading to trial.
The Ivy League university’s problem in this case is that its strongest argument is also its weakest one.
Harvard’s use of personality traits to rate applicants raises questions about how to evaluate intangible criteria. Here’s what some scholars and former admissions officers say.
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Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, who has donated more than $500 million to Harvard University over the years, has halted contributions to his alma mater and claimed elite schools produce “whiny snowflakes.”
President Claudine Gay is in a tough spot. The Harvard Corporation deserves to be in a much tougher spot.
And so should everyone else.
The president, Claudine Gay, told the campus newspaper that she “should have had the presence of mind” to answer differently.
What’s up with America’s misguided obsession with Ivy League schools?
University president cites need to decarbonize economy as student campaigners say: ‘Activism works, plain and simple’
The complaint comes two days after immigration authorities announced that international students could not take only virtual classes this fall without risk of deportation, contrary to more flexible rules this spring as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that forced most schools online.
Last year Harvard Business School’s online operation got a new name. Now it has a new leader as well.A few months ago, Debora Spar took the helm a
The university and its critics can transform this polarizing culture war controversy into a constructive moment––if both take steps to placate the other side.
The elite US university faces a legal challenge over its student selection policy but denies unfairness.
New revelations from a lawsuit against the university capture the difficulty of comparing thousands upon thousands of talented teenagers.
Personal ratings brought down Asian-American applicants’ chances of being admitted, according to an analysis filed by a group suing the school for bias.
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