Elise Spenner

Unsurprised to see campus labor icon Ed Childs on the picket lines today: thecrimson.com/article/2025/5…

NEW: In closed door dinners around the country, Harvard is asking donors for $10 million gifts to endow new faculty in the name of "viewpoint diversity." The total price tag is several hundred million dollars — enough to fund dozens of professors. thecrimson.com/article/2026/4…

Big news from @tmbierwerth @Noahaferris this afternoon — grad students represented by @hgsuuaw will begin striking April 21 if the University doesn't meet their demands. The union's 3rd strike since it formed in 2018, comes after >1 year of bargaining thecrimson.com/article/2026/4…

When Judge Richard Stearns hears the DOJ's new case against Harvard, he might get deja vu — it will be his fourth time overseeing an antisemitism complaint against the University. We read the tea leaves: thecrimson.com/article/2026/3…

Claudine Gay is back. More than two years after her dramatic resignation, Gay will re-enter the classroom next fall to teach “What is a University?" — a selective course that will ask students to scrutinize Harvard and propose institutional reforms. thecrimson.com/article/2026/3…

#BREAKING: The U.S. DOJ filed a sweeping lawsuit against Harvard, alleging that the University violated federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish students from harassment on campus. @HugoChiassonn and @EliseSpenner report. thecrimson.com/article/2026/3…

NEW: Larry Summers will resign from all academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year in what may be the denouement of an extraordinary public unraveling over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. thecrimson.com/article/2026/2…

As Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences sought to cut costs, it turned to a pricey partner: McKinsey, one of the world’s most expensive consulting firms. w/ @abbysgerstein in @thecrimson : thecrimson.com/article/2026/2…

NEW: Harvard President Alan Garber said the University “went wrong” by allowing faculty activism in the classroom, arguing professors’ political views have chilled free speech and debate on campus. @EliseSpenner and @HugoChiassonn report. thecrimson.com/article/2026/1…

SCOOP: Former Harvard President Larry Summers was named a successor executor in convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's 2014 will, according to a copy of the document obtained Monday. In @thecrimson w/ @EliseSpenner: thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

SCOOP: Internal docs obtained by @thecrimson show Harvard Salient leaders casually used racial slurs, circulated a draft with Nazi symbols, and criticized women's voting rights — revelations that triggered the board to suspend the conservative magazine. thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

NEW: A short video clip in the files released today by the Department of Justice shows convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein talking to a man who appears to be Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. More TK as @thecrimson parses thousands of new documents from Epstein's estate.

BREAKING: The Trump administration appealed a September ruling ordering the return of nearly $2.7 billion in frozen research funds to Harvard, according to a notice filed late Thursday. @HugoChiassonn and @EliseSpenner report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

NEW: Harvard President Alan M. Garber '76 will remain at the helm of the University indefinitely, according to a Monday announcement from Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker ’81. thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

NEW in @thecrimson: House Oversight Democrats released new photos from the Epstein estate today. Among them — a picture of former Harvard President Larry Summers and his wife, Elisa New, on what appears to be the convicted sex offender's private jet.

EXCLUSIVE: Larry Summers tells @thecrimson he’s *stepping back* from all public commitments in light of his messages w/ Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.” He will continue teaching. thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

IOP Director Setti Warren, who died Sunday at 55, made a name for himself as a Boston politician. But he is remembered as a cheerleader — of his students, of his country, of his beloved Celtics, of his son's volleyball team. Our full obit, here: thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

Pete Hegseth loves to hate DEI. In a speech last week, he railed against "woke garbage" and said diversity was "debris." But in a 2013 Harvard paper, he pitched a STEM high school that would "emphasize equity" and prioritize a "diverse student body.” thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

President Trump has spent months warring with Harvard. Now, his former VP is courting the University. Appearing at a campus event yesterday, Mike Pence applauded the "vital" and "extremely important" role of research universities. thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…

At last night’s IOP forum, Maggie Haberman admitted it has been “much harder” to report on Trump 2.0 and said the WH is “significantly less leaky” this time around. Why? A much tighter inner circle, run by Susie Wiles and her iron grip. thecrimson.com/article/2025/9…