Harvard Canceled Human Rights Event as Its President Met With Xi Jinping

Human rights scholar says university trades free inquiry for Chinese dollars

Yuichiro Kakutani
May 4, 2020 5:00 AM

Harvard University canceled a panel discussion on human rights issues in China because the event coincided with the university president's meet-and-greet with Chinese president Xi Jinping, according to a former university scholar.

Harvard Agrees to Pay Dining Hall Workers After Free Beacon Report

Coronavirus Pandemic Causes Climate Of Anxiety And Changing Routines In America

Alana Goodman
March 30, 2020 5:35 PM

Harvard University has agreed to pay its contract dining hall employees and other workers through the end of the semester, after facing pressure and protests from employment rights advocates on and off campus.

Harvard, Boasting $40 Billion Endowment, Lays Off Dining Hall Workers Due to Coronavirus

Country's richest university cuts costs as pandemic sweeps country

Alana Goodman
March 24, 2020 3:00 PM

Harvard University, which has the largest endowment of any school in the country, is cutting its subcontracted dining hall workers without pay as it shuts down in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Northwestern, Harvard Student Papers Under Fire for Committing Journalism

Harvard students walk through the campus

Alex Griswold
November 12, 2019 4:45 PM

Newspapers at two of the nation's top universities have come under fire from left-wing campus activists in recent weeks for the crime of conforming to well-established journalistic practices.

Warren Pushes to Tax, Regulate Investments That Enriched Her

Senator's private equity plan would hurt retirees, universities

Yuichiro Kakutani
September 24, 2019 5:00 AM

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's plan to crack down on the private equity industry would place stringent regulations on a source of funds that helped enrich her as a law professor at Harvard. The plan, which would heavily tax and regular private equity firms to stop what Warren has called Wall Street's "legalized looting," could also end up hurting her former Harvard colleagues and Massachusetts retirees.

Elizabeth Warren Failed to Stand Up for Low-Income Harvard Employees During 2009 Layoffs

Former Harvard employee: Warren 'certainly did not stand up' for coworkers facing termination

Collin Anderson
September 18, 2019 5:00 AM

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has campaigned as a champion of the working class, but she failed to stand up for low-income Harvard employees facing layoffs, a former Harvard library assistant says.

Harvard Rescinds Acceptance of Conservative Activist Kyle Kashuv

Charlie Hoffmann
June 17, 2019 10:55 AM

Harvard has rescinded their acceptance of conservative activist Kyle Kashuv, a survivor of the 2019 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, to its 2023 undergraduate class.

Buttigieg Accused ‘American Right Wing’ of Fearing ‘Boobs’ in 2004

Nic Rowan
April 2, 2019 6:08 PM

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has some thoughts on "boobs," which the Democratic presidential hopeful offered in a 2004 column for the Harvard Crimson.

Landlord Tells Harvard Student to Move Out Over Legally Owned Guns

Roommates searched room for guns after finding MAGA hat

Stephen Gutowski
November 30, 2018 9:35 AM

A Massachusetts landlord told a Harvard University graduate student that he wanted her to move out of her apartment because her legally owned firearms made some of her roommates uncomfortable.

Trial Begins in Harvard Anti-Asian Discrimination Suit

Charles Fain Lehman
October 15, 2018 1:42 PM

Plaintiffs who charge Harvard University with bias against Asians in its admissions practices will have their day in court Monday.