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The Harvard Plan is about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. Hosted by award-winning reporter Ilya Marritz, the podcast is a co-production of The Boston Globe and WNYC’s On The Media. Season One explores the chaos at Harvard University in 2024, with the rise and fall of its first Black president, Claudine Gay. Season Two reveals the broken friendships and knotty moral quandaries caused by the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on higher education.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Harvard Plan is about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. Hosted by award-winning reporter Ilya Marritz, the podcast is a co-production of The Boston Globe and WNYC’s On The Media. Season One explores the chaos at Harvard University in 2024, with the rise and fall of its first Black president, Claudine Gay.
The Harvard Plan is hosted by The Boston Globe. The show has published 8 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Endless Frontier" (15 November 2025, 52 minutes), "Jay & Alan" (5 November 2025, 51 minutes), and "And so it begins..." (29 October 2025, 51 minutes).
The Harvard Plan publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 8 episodes.
Booking probability for The Harvard Plan is 17%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Harvard Plan requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Harvard Plan's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Harvard Plan are Universities & Colleges. The Harvard Plan has a society audience.
The Boston Globe hosts The Harvard Plan, a society podcast with 8 episodes published.
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Episode #3
<p>Universities were not always so vulnerable to the whims of politics. The whole system of taxpayer-funded, university-led scientific research came about at the end of World War II, and was the brainchild of a man...
Episode #2
<p>Harvard president Alan Garber and National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya are at the heart of the national fight over the future of academia. Alan Garber has been cast as the defender of academic...
Episode #1
<p>What happened at Harvard after Donald Trump’s inauguration? Three main characters, all Harvard insiders, tell the story from their perspective: politics professor Ryan Enos, genetics professor and cancer researcher...
The Harvard Plan
<p>Season One of The Harvard Plan anticipated what could happen to Harvard and academia once the new Trump administration came to power. Season Two picks up where the story left off. Host Ilya Marritz investigates the...
Episode #3
<p>In part three of this collaboration with WNYC’s On The Media, the deep history of Harvard and the distinctly American idea of “diversity” is the hidden subtext for much of the recent strife. For most of the past...
Episode #2
<p>In part two of this collaboration with WNYC’s On The Media, Claudine Gay is accused of academic plagiarism, just days after giving testimony to Congress. The drip-drip of new allegations keeps the story in the...
Episode #1
<p>In part one of this collaboration with WNYC’s On The Media, Claudine Gay’s history-making inauguration as Harvard’s first Black president in September 2023 is seen by many as an inspirational moment for the...
The Harvard Plan
<p>Universities have become a battlefield in the American culture wars in a way that’s dramatic and new. In the past year, Congress subpoenaed and investigated the inner workings of private colleges for the first time...
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deputy assistant to the president and senior policy strategist for the White House, Independent Women’s Law Center
MD, PhD, Director of the NIH, Professor Emeritus of Health Policy at Stanford University, Stanford University Medical School
Real Estate Broker & leader, Harvard University
Harvard President, Harvard University
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