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Harvard again requiring standardized test scores for those seeking admission
Harvard University announced Thursday that it is reinstituting standardized tests as a requirement for admission beginning with the class of 2029, joining other colleges that are again mandating tests for those hoping to enter the schools. In June 2020, Harvard began a temporary test-optional policy under which students could apply to the college without submitting scores. The change was adopted…
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Harvard denies Notre Dame fourth straight NCAA fencing championship
Harvard held off reigning three-time champion Notre Dame 169-161 to win the NCAA Fencing Championships at French Field House. Harvard’s men did not win any individual titles on the final day but did enough to hold off Notre Dame. Columbia was third with 149 points. Princeton (131) and Penn State (130) rounded out the top five in the 27-team field....
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Harvard responds to video of confrontation over removal of Israeli hostage posters
A person working at Harvard was caught on camera tearing down Israeli hostage posters, leading to a confrontation with a student who tried to stop him. The video, now circulating on social media, shows the student approach the worker and question why he was taking the fliers down. In the video the pair can be heard arguing over Harvard policy…
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Thousands of documents submitted in Harvard antisemitism probe
Harvard University says it has handed over nearly 4,900 documents as part of the federal investigation into antisemitism on its campus. The Boston Globe reports there have been 11 different submissions since January, the latest coming after the chair of the Republican-led House Education & Workforce Committee subpoenaed the school last month for failing to comply with the investigation in…
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Harvard's leader decries ‘flagrantly antisemitic' cartoon posted by groups
Harvard’s interim president has condemned an antisemitic cartoon posted to a social media account for a pro-Palestinian university faculty and student group, among others. The cartoon showed two men, one Arab and one Black, with nooses around their necks being held by a hand bearing the Star of David, the symbol imprinted with a star, interim President Alan Garber...
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Group of students sue Harvard claiming “rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment”
Six students have sued Harvard University claiming it has become a “bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment” according to reporting from the New York Times. They allege Harvard professors propagate antisemitism during class and intimidate the students who object. The complaint was filed in federal court in Massachusetts, according to the Times. Harvard has been a focus of controversy…
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Man accused in Harvard bomb threat, extortion plot last year pleads guilty to a lesser charge
A New Hampshire man who had been accused of participating in a plot in which a caller issued bomb threats last year to Harvard University and demanded a large amount of bitcoin pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Wednesday. William Giordani, 55, of Nashua, New Hampshire, was arrested last year on charges including making an extortionate bomb threat. That charge…
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Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: Plagiarism
Claudine Gay’s resignation Tuesday followed weeks of mounting accusations that she lifted language from other scholars in her doctoral dissertation and journal articles.
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Hundreds of faculty members sign letter in support of embattled Harvard president
Over 500 faculty members have signed a letter supporting Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who has come under fire over the past week for her testimony at a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. In the letter, the faculty members urged the school’s top governing body, “to defend the independence of the university and to resist political pressures that are at…
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Harvard president apologizes for remarks on antisemitism as pressure mounts on Penn's president
Harvard University’s president apologized as pressure mounted for the University of Pennsylvania’s president to resign over their testimony at a congressional hearing on antisemitism. Critics from the White House on down say they failed to demonstrate that they would stand up to antisemitism on campus. Now, Harvard President Claudine Gay says she failed to properly denounce threats of violence against...
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Whistleblower allegation: Harvard muzzled disinfo team after $500 million Zuckerberg donation
A prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history. The actions impacting Joan Donovan’s work coincided with a…
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Harvard to offer class on Taylor Swift's songwriting
English professor Stephanie Burt says nearly 300 students have already signed up.
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Department of Education opens investigation into Harvard's legacy admissions
The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Harvard University’s policies on legacy admissions, which give an edge to applicants with family ties to alumni. Top colleges’ preferential treatment of children of alumni, who are often white, has been facing new scrutiny since the Supreme Court last month struck down the use of affirmative action as a tool...
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Arrests in human remains trade tied to Harvard Medical School. Here's what we know
A former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue, his wife and three other people have been indicted in the theft and sale of human body parts. And federal officials charged a sixth person in connection with the investigation just last week. It’s a story that has drawn national attention and led to a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all...
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Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling challenge legacy admissions at Harvard
A civil rights legal group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni.
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New England leaders, universities react to Supreme Court admissions ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action represents a sea change in college admissions and garnered reactions from across the world of higher education and politics. The leadership of Harvard, one of the two universities that was being sued in the case, issued a statement reaffirming its commitment to having a body of students who “reflect, and have...
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Supreme Court ends affirmative action: Read the full decision here
In a landmark decision that will have far-reaching implications in how colleges and universities select their students, the United States Supreme Court has ruled against Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s admissions policy that relied in part on racial considerations. Thursday’s decision by the court’s conservative majority represents a major shift in legal precedent for institutions of higher...
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Class-action suit filed over alleged Harvard morgue body part thefts
A class-action suit, filed in Massachusetts’ Suffolk Superior Court Friday, seeks “monetary damages for the severe emotional distress caused” by an alleged body part-selling scheme at the Harvard Medical School morgue.
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Human body parts stolen from Harvard morgue. What we know about the ‘disturbing' scheme
An alleged scheme involving the exchange of human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School’s morgue for money was made public on Wednesday, as unsealed federal charging documents depicted an apparently lucrative black market for body parts.
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Harvard reaching out to families in major cadaver theft case
Officials reacted with “profound sadness and distress” to the federal indictment on Wednesday of a former employee of the Harvard Anatomical Gift Program accused of stealing and selling off donors’ body parts on the black market.