In January, Natalia Rudiak, Daniela Chacón Arias, and Jeremiah Ellison taught the J-Term course Building and Navigating Power: How Transformative City Projects Actually Happen. Its aim: to build the political literacy and ethical grounding to translate ideas into durable, democratic urban change. It was a hit with students.

Loebs concluded their 2025 Loeb Fellowship 55th Anniversary celebration with an activity that has become a cherished institution since 2019: the Day of Service. This year’s site was Eastie Farm in East Boston.

When Jim Stockard ’78 retired as curator of the Loeb Fellowship in May 2014, his valediction was a scorecard of how we are doing at keeping the promise of the Housing Act of 1949: a decent home for every American family. His rating: we weren’t.