The Harvard University 2025 commencement was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday. Harvard provided a livestream of the graduation ceremony on YouTube. Harvard president Alan Garber got a standing ovation as he welcomed students from across the country and around the world.

A US District Court Judge has ordered the federal government not to make any permanent changes to Harvard University’s student visa program.

The administration has frozen funding and targeted international students as it presses the university for a stronger response to alleged antisemitism.

As the White House moves to revoke Harvard University’s certification to enroll foreign students — escalating a battle between the administration and the oldest and wealthiest college in the U.S. — President Donald Trump is falsely claiming that Harvard offers “remedial mathematics” on topics such as simple addition.

On its Cambridge campus and in a Boston courtroom, Harvard touted its international students as vital contributors to its makeup.

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with a woman who says she is one of the subjects’ descendants.

Harvard University has a history of left-leaning commencement speakers as it contends with ongoing criticism about its lack of viewpoint diversity on campus.

Harvard has filed litigation charging that Trump unlawfully froze billions in federal funding to the school after it refused to give the government control over academic decisions.