Corporation Headliner made contributions in di- Diana L. Nelson ’84, former vice chair of verse fields ranging from the executive committee of the Board of Brevia contract theory and cor- Overseers, returns to Harvard service, porate finance to law and effective July 1, as a member of the Cor- economics. Announcing poration. Her appointment, an- the appointment nounced in February, fills the in early March, SNIBBE/HPAC KRIS vacancy created when venture President Law- Oliver Hart capitalist James Breyer, M.B.A. ’87, rence S. Bacow stepped down at hailed Hart’s scholarship for the end of one having “not only deepened our six-year term last knowledge of economic theory June. Nelson was but also driven its application in a co-chair of The a range of contexts.” He succeeds Harvard Cam- William Julius Wilson, who re-

HPAC paign (conclud- tired last September. Diana L. ed in 2018), and Nelson has co-chaired Faculty-Dean Departures her class reunions since 1994. A With the February announcement fine-arts concentrator, she is now that Xander University Professor president of the board of the San Douglas Melton and Gail O’Keefe Francisco Museum of Modern would conclude their service as El- Art. Until last summer, Nelson iot House faculty deans at the end served as chair of Carlson Inc., THE WASHINGTON POST of the academic year, Harvard Col- the travel-services conglomerate; lege dean Rakesh Khurana faces she will become chair of its parent searches for successor faculty company, Carlson Holdings, Inc., deans at five of the undergraduate in May. Read more at harvard- residences. The others are Cabot Martin Baron mag.com/nelson-corp-20. COURTESY OF RICKY CARIOTI/ (from which Khurana and his WOULD-BE HONORANDS. Before COVID-19 wife, Stephanie Ralston Khura- Admissions Lawsuit, Round 2 postponed the May 28 Commencement exercises, na, are stepping down), Kirkland, Harvard announced that its guest speaker, following the On February 18, Students for Fair morning exercises, would be Martin (“Marty”) Baron, Quincy, and Winthrop Houses. Admissions (SFFA) filed its brief executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013— appealing the district court rul- perhaps the nation’s leading AI, Ethics, CS ing in its case alleging that Har- newspaper journalist during an Harvard’s peers are ac- era of traumatic change within vard’s race-conscious, holistic the industry and of unprecedent- tively pursuing intellectual undergraduate admissions pol- ed attacks on journalism by and practical fields also of icy discriminates against Asian- leaders here and abroad. See lively interest here. Among harvardmag.com/baron-comm­ American students. Judge Allison speaker-20 to learn more. The them, Stanford—intimate- D. Burroughs ruled in the Univer- following day, the Radcliffe Medal ly associated with Silicon sity’s favor last October, after an was to be conferred on Melinda Valley—has launched an extensive trial (see “Harvard’s Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Ethics, Society and Tech- Melinda Gates Foundation with Admissions Process Upheld,” her husband, Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. nology Integrative Hub to November-December 2019, page ’07 (co-founder of Microsoft). engage all its schools in 21). From the outset, the litigation The initial program and hon- exploring the ethical chal- has been seen as an attempt to get orand are detailed at harvard- lenges (privacy, bias, and mag.com/mgates-radcliffe-20. a case before the Supreme Court, Melinda Gates so on) associated with in- COURTESY OF THE BILL & MELINDA FOUNDATION GATES where the plaintiffs hope to se- novation. Its Institute for cure a decision outlawing consideration sequent appellate decision ensuing several Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, of race in admissions, so the appeal was months after. also new, is addressing these matters in expected. On February 25, the U.S. Depart- that rapidly developing, but contentious, ment of Justice filed an amicus brief sup- New University Professor field as well.…TheUniversity of Cali- porting SFFA, characterizing Harvard’s Oliver Hart, co-winner of the 2016 Nobel fornia, Berkeley, launching its $6-billion procedures as “illegal race discrimination.” Prize in economic sciences, has been ap- Light the Way campaign on February 29, The University’s response is due by May 14, pointed Geyser University Professor. A kick-started the effort by announcing an with oral argument, if granted, and a sub- member of the faculty since 1993, he has anonymous $252-million gift—the largest

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in its history, and about half the funding and to launch new environmental-sciences Among the 15 schools that replied, only a sought to build, staff, and support a “Data and bioengineering facilities the following handful could provide estimates (the im- Hub,” its new home for its division of com- year—to be followed by renovated quarters plementing regulations for the tax are in- puting, data science, and society.…Union for computer science. The capital campaign complete); most foresaw assessments of $1 College, beginning a $300-million capital to pay for everything debuts this fall.…The million plus or minus. Since some of the campaign, announced a $51-million gift, the University of Virginia has committed to calculations are based on unrealized invest- largest in its history, from graduates Rich building 1,000 to 1,500 units of affordable ment gains, actual cash payments by Har- and Mary Templeton (he is chairman and housing during the next 10 years, with de- vard and Stanford, and presumably others, CEO of Texas Instruments), to create an velopment partners, on land it owns in and may not be due until future tax years. eponymous institute for engineering and around Charlottesville. computer science. Artist actor activist. Rubén Blades, Clinical Reach LL.M.’85, the salsa musician who has also On Other Campuses has augmented its ros- acted in movies and televisions series, and Stanford alumnus John Arrillaga, a real- ter of 46 legal clinics and student practice ran for president of Panama estate developer and significant supporter organizations, announcing two new ones in 1994, has been named the of his alma mater, committed $55 million in February. The Voting Rights Litigation 2020 Harvard Arts Medal- to its school of medicine. The gift doubles and Advocacy Clinic—focusing on voter ist. He was scheduled to the financial aid available to students with suppression and redistricting, plus election be honored April 30, at the demonstrated need during the next decade, administration, campaign finance, ethics, beginning of the Arts First

and will be combined with other resources and other pertinent issues—is led by lec- celebration, now a casualty COURTESY OF RUBÉN BLADES to eliminate medical-school debt for “quali- turer on law Ruth Greenwood and requires of coronavirus. Rubén Blades fied” incoming students.…Yale, in the quiet enrollment in “Election Law,” taught by phases of a capital campaign expected to professor of law Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Admissions. The College admitted 1,980 of focus heavily on science, has begun plan- who joined the faculty in January from the 40,248 applicants to the class of 2024: 4.9 per- ning a new building devoted to quantum University of Chicago. On deck is the Reli- cent. And their nominal term bill (before finan- science, engineering, and materials re- gious Freedom Clinic, dedicated to action cial aid) will be $72,391—up 4 percent from search.…The University of Wisconsin- on cases involving the rights of vulnerable $69,607 this academic year. Details are avail- Madison received $70 million from alumni clients to practice their religion; according able at harvardmag.com/2024admits-20. and major donors John and Tashia (Frank- to HLS, it is modeled on Stanford’s Reli- wurth) Morgridge (he is the former chair- gious Liberty Clinic. Adams House update. The renewal of Adams man of Cisco Systems); it will be used, on House, complicated by its separate buildings a matching basis, to encourage further en- Nota Bene and narrow Cambridge streets, has now been dowment gifts to support faculty recruit- Endowment taxes. A February Inside Higher extended. The original schedule called for ment and retention.…Princeton, already Education report on universities’ assessments work to begin in June 2019 and to conclude building two new residential colleges to for the excise tax on certain endowment before classes resume for the fall 2023 semes- expand undergraduate enrollment, has investment income, enacted in late 2017, ter (see harvardmag.com/adams-renew- announced plans to construct a new uni- indicated that Stanford’s estimated $42.9 al-19). Based on the work already under way, versity art museum beginning next spring, million obligation is roughly comparable and Greater Boston’s tight construction mar- to Harvard’s ket—workers are in short supply—comple- estimated $37 tion has now been extended to August 2024. million levy The huge Eliot-Kirkland House renewals, an during fis- especially complicated and costly undertak- cal year 2019. ing, have not yet been planned or scheduled.

CAPITAL-PROJECT COMPENDIUM. The University planning office’s annual “Town Gown Report” to Cambridge for 2019 documents the continuing renewal of Adams House (now scheduled for completion by the fall 2024 term); the Divinity School’s Swartz (née Andover) Hall renovation and expansion (delivery in early 2021); ; and, shown here, the renovation and skyward extension (a fifth floor) for the Law School’s

HARVARD MAGAZINE Lewis International Law Center. (That school’s decanal residence, on Irving Street, is also getting a makeover.) On deck is renovating and expanding Gund Hall (home to the Graduate School of Design), for which planning continues—plus, ultimately, renewal of Eliot and Kirkland

KRISTINA DEMICHELE/ Houses, for which planning apparently has not yet begun.

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Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 • Smart cities and climate change, the versity online programs, finally appear A lifetime of giving, continued. As report- newest and most nascent programs. poised to have an impact on campus peda- ed, the sale of collections from the estate gogy. Those foundational modules—core of David Rockefeller ’36, G ’37, LL.D. ’69, In the near term, the University’s re- skills and concepts—might be on-ramps yielded additional gifts to Harvard, among focused online strategy appears promising. to a host of courses across the University. other beneficiaries (Brevia, May-June 2019, HBS and the Extension School have estab- And, said Tingley, “the ex ante intent of what page 30). The has now re- lished large executive- and continuing-ed- we’re trying to do across the series” now ported, and it has been confirmed, that the ucation businesses based on proven learner under development might inform curricular proceeds were $50 million or more. interest. They make increasingly effective planning within the Faculty of Arts and Sci- use of purpose-built online platforms with ences, enabling professors to “be in a better Decanal news. engaging pedagogies—and, helpfully, gener- position to meet the needs, not just the inter- dean , scheduled to step ate substantial revenues. Careful consulta- ests, of our learners” with somewhat more down at the end of the academic year, tions, taking into account existing programs intention and structure. As more faculty will remain through 2020, easing search like those, have identified subjects in which members engage with the new sequences, pressures during the coronavirus crisis; Harvard faculty members can and want to the appeal of that idea might spread. see harvardmag.com/nohria-stays-20.… develop unique online learning experienc- And as faculty members gain experi- Jones professor of American studies Liza- es, for which demand is apparent. And the ence with the large-scale, engaged learning beth Cohen, the Radcliffe Institute dean model—tailored to Harvard’s educational enabled by the evolved online platforms, emerita, won the Bancroft Prize, the high- strengths—appears to have the potential to Anand thinks that it’s “much more likely est honor for American history, for her re- sustain itself: in his January annual update, that in the very near future we’ll be talk- cent book Saving America’s Cities (reviewed his last as HBS dean, Nitin Nohria wrote ing not about ‘online’ and ‘residential,’ but in September-October 2019, page 64); it that the school’s online program, created about blended experiences that seamless- was her second Bancroft. Read more at on his watch, “achieved a key milestone of ly travel across formats.” In the coronavi- harvardmag.com/cohen-bancroft-20. financial sustainability by making a positive rus spring semester, essentially the entire margin for the first time. Equally important, teaching faculty and student body are en- Miscellany. Employees we have scaled while maintaining high lev- countering a primitive form of “distance” Credit Union president and CEO Gene Fol- els of learner satisfaction and engagement…. learning. It’s good to know that a multi- ey, who joined the organization in 1979 and [C]ompletion rates have remained at more year investment in much more sophisticat- has led it for the past quarter-century, will than 85 percent for all courses.” ed, effective online pedagogies is maturing retire in July.…Craig Rodgers, a counselor More broadly, both what has been in the meantime, just as those appetites are at the Bureau of Study Counsel for nearly learned to date, and the prospective Uni- whetted. vj.s.r. two decades, has become program manag- er for military student services, a new role, within the College’s dean of students office. part reflecting both publicity about and re- He is responsible for working with ROTC Divestment Digest action to the passage of the FAS motion, and students and others interested in military As reported, briefly, in the March- ’s subsequent Fac- service.…Knafel professor of music Suzan- April issue, the Faculty of Arts and Sci- ulty Council vote in favor of similar divest- nah Clark is the new director of the Mahin- ences (FAS) voted on February 4 in favor ment resolutions (directed to the Corpora- dra Humanities Center, succeeding interim of a motion calling on the Corporation to tion and to Dean George Q. Daley). director Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family pro- instruct Harvard Management Company to • On other campuses. On February 6, George- fessor of South Asian history.…The Harvard shed investments in future fossil-fuel pro- town’s board of directors decided to divest Law School Library has begun releasing pa- duction and to move toward assets that public fossil-fuel investments within five pers from its Antonin Scalia, LL.B. ’60, col- promote “decarbonization,” as part of the years, and private ones within a decade. The lection. The late Supreme Court justice’s University’s response to climate change. university “will continue to make invest- papers will be made available to researchers (Find a detailed report at harvardmag. ments that target a market rate of return in during the next 40 years. Dean John F. Man- com/fas-divestdebate-feb-20.) Although renewable energy, energy efficiency and re- ning clerked for Scalia in 1988-1989.…In a bit President Lawrence S. Bacow has not yet lated areas while freezing new endowment of painful timing, the only faculty member reported back to the faculty about the Cor- investments in companies or funds whose appointed to the National Academy of En- poration’s response (only one intervening primary business is the exploration or ex- gineering this year, per its announcement faculty meeting occurred before this issue traction of fossil fuels.” February 6, was Friedman University went to press, and he had signaled that it Two weeks later, the University of Michi- Professor Charles M. Lieber; as reported would take some time to do so), much ac- gan regents decided to freeze fossil-fuel in- (News Briefs, March-April, page 24), he was tivity unfolded on other fronts. vestments—not “bring[ing] forward new di- arrested on January 28 and charged with • The demonstration effect. As of the day be- rect investments” in such companies—while misleading the U.S. government and Har- fore the FAS vote, 550 faculty members and they pursue a thorough review of investment vard about his work for and compensation associates had signed Harvard Faculty for policy for the sector. It is apparently the first by programs in China. Divestment’s petition. By mid February, that Big Ten school to adopt such a pause. roster had essentially doubled, no doubt in And in a March 4 letter to her commu-

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