Robert Kaplan, professor of management practices at the Harvard Business School, began his term Monday as interim chief executive officer of the Harvard Management Company, the group tasked with managing Harvard's nearly $35 billion endowment.
Dillard University, the New Orleans institution with which Brown established a partnership of support following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the alma mater of President Ruth Simmons, was recently ranked ninth on a U.S. News and World Report list of the top 81 historically black colleges ...
A noose was found hanging around the office door of a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College on Oct. 9 in what police are investigating as a hate crime. Madonna Constantine, the black victim of the incident, who has published research on multiculturalism in education and counseling, said ...
Drew Faust was officially installed as Harvard's 28th president last Friday, the first woman in the history of the university to be appointed to its highest office.
Three former Duke University lacrosse players - including Reade Seligmann '09 - who were falsely accused last year in a rape case that garnered national attention, filed suit last Friday against former district attorney Mike Nifong, the city of Durham, N.C., and police officers and lab personnel involved ...
Beginning this academic year, Brown and Harvard universities will offer the human papillomavirus vaccine to students for $25 a shot - a 40 percent decrease in price at Brown from last year and an even steeper decrease at Harvard. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also lowered the cost of ...
After spending nearly a century at Yale University, a collection of artifacts from Machu Picchu will soon be returned to Peru, the university announced Sept. 14 in a joint statement with the Peruvian government.
Last Monday, the University of California at Berkeley received a pledge for a $113 million gift, the largest single gift in the school's history, according to a university statement. The gift comes from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and is designed to help the public university to stay competitive ...
New York University plans to open a satellite campus in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, according to a senior faculty member who leaked the information to the press under the condition of anonymity.
Several dozen protesters have taken to the trees at the University of California at Berkeley to oppose the clearing of a nearly 100-year-old oak grove.
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