Harvard’s new grade cap is meant to curb a decade of rising A’s — but confidential course-level data shows the policy will ...

Achieving alumni status at an institution like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School or Stanford used to mean years ...

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday to pilot a partnership with peer institutions that will allow undergraduates to take less commonly taught language courses through live online ...

The May 21 editorial "Harvard takes aim at the ubiquitous ‘A’" blamed grade inflation for the share of A’s that students ...

Each year, the undergraduate college at Harvard awards the Sophia Freund Prize to the graduating senior with the highest GPA. For decades, the prize went to one student, sometimes two if there was a ...

Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health is bracing for the possibility of losing as much as half of its federal research funding in the coming years, some $100 million annually, prompting the ...

N.P. “Narv” Narvekar, the head of Harvard University’s nearly $57 billion endowment, recently told the endowment’s board he plans to retire, according to people familiar with the discussions. He has ...

What’s new: Harvard is offering dozens of free online courses across disciplines like AI, law, literature, and leadership, available to anyone worldwide via edX. Why it matters: These classes give ...

A proposed grading reform at Harvard University has sparked a campus-wide discussion, bringing attention to how academic evaluation systems intersect with broader questions of fairness and access. The ...

In the spring of 2022, after a grueling 58-loss season, the Oklahoma City Thunder sat near the bottom of the NBA standings. Then something remarkable happened: The ...