Welcome to the Office of the President
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Meet LarryLatest from the President
Keep up-to-date with President Lawrence Bacow by reading latest news, directives and thoughts.
Executive Vice President Katie Lapp
President Bacow announces the retirement of Executive Vice President Katie Lapp.
President Bacow’s statement at FAS faculty meeting
Response by President Bacow to a question from Professor Eric Nelson at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on May 3, 2022 regarding recent events on campus and an editorial in The Harvard Crimson…
Here is the truth about Harvard’s historical ties to slavery
Here is one such truth: Slavery powerfully shaped Harvard.
May 27, 2021
Honoring the Class of 2021
You are on the brink of joining one of the world’s most accomplished communities of alumni, a community that for nearly four hundred years has connected “the age that is past to the age that is waiting before.”