Harvard’s President Will Step Down Next Year

Lawrence S. Bacow announced on Wednesday that he would step down as president of Harvard in June 2023 following a tenure of five years, a period in which he steered the university through the coronavirus pandemic as well as an attack on its admissions policies, which are likely to face a Supreme Court test this year.
A lifelong academic, Mr. Bacow, 70, first arrived at Harvard as a graduate student in 1972, ultimately obtaining three Harvard degrees. Before assuming his current job, he had served as a professor and chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then as president of Tufts University.