Op Eds
Nothing Matters. Everything Matters.
Hard is still possible. Hard is meaningful. Hard things are what we did to get here.
Belonging at Harvard: Moving Beyond Acceptance
As I leave Harvard behind, I want to offer advice for creating a more inclusive future to University leaders, my fellow alumni, and current students.
Tiya Miles: Rip or Repair? How To Respond to Harvard’s Year of Crisis.
Repairing the university means defending the spirit of our collectivity. Class of 2024, ever excellent, ever resilient: we need you to help lead the way.
Sam Lessin: Pritzker’s Presidential Mulligan and How to Secure Harvard’s Future
Having run to become an Overseer and, now, having spent months engaging with alumni on the issues facing Harvard, I’ve learned much about how Harvard should proceed.
Ken Griffin: Depart To Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind
our predecessors committed themselves to active participation in our civic life, serving and sacrificing for the sake of others. Carry the torch that is now being passed on to you and build a future that unites us.
Larry Summers: An End and a Beginning For Harvard
As commencement marks the end of this difficult academic year, I hope it will mark the beginning of a time when Harvard moves past the urgent to the historically important.
I Led The Crimson Through Historic Backlash. Now, Harvard’s Pro-Palestine Protesters Face Worse.
Remember the members of our class not graduating with us because they were punished this week — in flagrant disregard of decades of University precedent — for peacefully and civilly exercising their right to free speech.
From the Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Bias Task Force: Many at Harvard Feel Ignored
We are the co-chairs of the Presidential Task Force on Combating Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Bias, and we write to share what we’ve found from our work so far — and where we’ll go from here.
From the Antisemitism Task Force: How to Repair a Fractured Harvard
Healing our fractured community will require time and effort. Recognizing the distinct ways in which Jewish and Israeli students have been hurt is an essential part of that process.
Joan Donovan: How Corporate Money Threatens Academic Freedom
Academic freedom only holds weight if every member of the academic community is committed to safeguarding academic freedom from external pressures.
Lara Jirmanus: What Would You Risk for Someone You Don’t Know?
As our tax and endowment dollars fund mass atrocities, we must use every means at our disposal to say never again.
To the Student Protesters Barred From Graduating on Time
The Ad Board’s bad-faith actions have damaged something that is essential for our great University to fulfill its mission: trust among faculty, students, and administrators.
From a Suspended Senior: With a Raised Middle Finger and Love in My Heart
I have found the freedom I thought Harvard would offer, but not in the ways one would think.
Harvard, Do Not Punish Calls for Justice
Harvard, do not punish your students for standing up for justice, peace, and equality — values that Harvard professes and has followed in the past.
The Past is Present: Four Decades of Anti-Apartheid University Struggles
Backlash against student actions calling for divestment from Israel is a testament to their importance. Let us remember that the protests against apartheid succeeded.
