In a message to the Harvard community on Thursday morning, as students were returning for the start of classes next week, President Alan M. Garber offered a welcome—and an admonition. He asked those coming back to campus to seek “enlightenment, understanding, and wisdom together.” The 2023-24 school year included months of upheaval and campus tension and ended with a pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard and a walkout during Commencement. Foreseeing a continuation of those disagreements, Garber wrote: “We have everything to gain from our commitments to one another—and so much to lose if we falter. Our community includes people of intensity and passion with beliefs both deeply held and strongly expressed. We must have the courage and the decency to care about each other and to care for each other.”Read President Garber’s full message here.