From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard plans to install additional security cameras around academic buildings and undergraduate residential areas, expanding a campus security push that administrators privately linked to the fatal shooting at Brown University and to possibly enforcing Harvard’s rules on campus protests.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson James M. Chisholm confirmed... that Harvard plans to add cameras around academic buildings and in the River and Quad residential areas. In a statement, Chisholm wrote that planned installations are part of Harvard’s “regular process” of assessing and updating its security infrastructure. But in an April 30 email to members of the Student Services Undergraduate Advisory Board — a group of students who provide feedback to College administrators on the undergraduate experience — Dean of Student Services Michael P. Burke directly tied the planned camera installations to security concerns raised by the Brown shooting... Burke wrote that the new cameras may also be a response to “crime investigation and possibly even campus use rules enforcement.”
Harvard enacted University-wide campus use rules in summer 2024 after months of pro-Palestine student protests across the College and graduate schools, including a 20-day encampment in Harvard Yard...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/7/6/harvard-to-add-security-cameras/.
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