Harvard College final week laid off the employees of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, who had been tasked with figuring out the direct descendants of these enslaved by Harvard-affiliated directors, school and employees, The Boston Globe reported. The work, which was a part of the college’s $100 million Legacy of Slavery initiative, will now fall fully…
A yr after the U.S. Supreme Court docket dominated affirmative motion in school admissions unconstitutional, the regulation colleges at each universities named as defendants—Harvard College and the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—admitted fewer Black college students this fall than in years previous. Harvard Legislation College enrolled 19 Black college students this yr in…
The Time Caps Working Group launched a survey on the coverage final week. Photograph illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Greater Ed | APCortizasJr/iStock/Getty Pictures | Time Caps Working Group In Harvard College’s undergraduate and Ph.D. applications, non-tenure-track academics can’t earn contract renewals indefinitely; as a substitute they’re pressured out after a set time period. The College…
A silent protest in Harvard’s fundamental library prompted a number of college suspensions. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Pictures Harvard College directors quickly barred a number of college members from the college’s fundamental library after greater than two dozen held a silent “study-in” to protest remedy of pupil demonstrators who had…
Few college students at Harvard College who protested the conflict in Israel final yr had been disciplined, in response to a report launched Thursday by the Home Schooling and Workforce Committee. Of the 68 college students who had been referred for disciplinary motion after taking part in an encampment, none had been suspended, 52 are…
5 Harvard College professors wielded chalk on campus Tuesday in protest of the establishment’s new coverage banning chalking and different expressive actions. Ryan Enos, a tenured authorities professor who took half, instructed Inside Increased Ed that the professors wrote messages like “Why does a preschool have extra tutorial freedom than Harvard?” and “I really…
Former College of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill, who resigned final yr amid the fallout of her extensively criticized congressional testimony on campus antisemitism, is moving into new roles at each Harvard Regulation Faculty and the London Faculty of Economics Regulation Faculty. Magill stays a tenured college member at Penn’s legislation college. The information of her…
Animal rights activist Brittany Drake, who dumped glitter on Harvard College president Alan Garber at an alumni day occasion in Might to protest Harvard analysis practices, appeared final week in courtroom, the place she faces three felony prices for the incident, The Boston Globe reported. Drake, who pleaded not responsible throughout her preliminary arraignment in…
In June of 2014, Harvard University’s Houghton Library put up a weblog publish titled “Caveat Lecter,” announcing “excellent news for followers of anthropodermic bibliopegy, bibliomaniacs, and maynibals alike.” The occasion was the scientific determination {that a} guide within the Houghton’s collection lengthy rumored to have been sure in human pores and skin — the duty…