Harvard

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

A group of people stole and sold off human remains from Harvard Medical School’s morgue, federal prosecutors say, with a grand jury indicting the morgue’s manager and his wife, among others.

Tom Hanks told graduates of Harvard University on Thursday to be superheroes in their defense of truth and American ideals, and to resist those who twist the truth for their own gain.

“I was completely in shock,” said Matthew Myslenski, who has dreamed of attending Harvard since he was in elementary school. “I think it was just one of the best moments in my life.”

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education. In lengthy arguments Monday, the justices wrestled with persistent, difficult questions of race. The justices heard from six different lawyers in challenges to policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard. Those policies consider race among many factors in evaluating applications...

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will serve as a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard this semester, the school said Wednesday.

Many of the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 did so because of the words of Donald Trump, according to a Harvard report. Hear from Joan Donovan, the report’s author and the research director at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in