The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.
The quiet removals came as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences — which houses the College, Harvard’s undergraduate school — announced internally on Wednesday afternoon that it would shutter its diversity office and replace it with an Office for Academic Culture and Community.
The same afternoon, web pages belonging to the Harvard College Women’s Center, Office for BGLTQ Student Life, and Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations were taken down. Links to the centers’ sites now redirect to a nearly empty web page for an Office of Culture and Community within the College’s Dean of Students Office.
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The rollout this week comes more than two months after Harvard renamed its central diversity office — and represents the most far-reaching effort yet to scour references to diversity, equity, and inclusion from the University’s official materials as the Trump administration demands their elimination.
And the changes also arrive as the White House has boasted publicly — and Harvard’s leaders have spoken privately — of reopened negotiations between the two parties. In recent days, dynamics seem to have soured once again, with the Trump administration serving the University a subpoena and threatening its accreditation Wednesday morning.
But the University’s moves that same day represent a major concession to a linchpin of the same demands that its leaders have denounced, in the media and in court, as unconstitutional. The Trump administration has repeatedly and explicitly included an end to DEI at Harvard among its conditions for restoring federal research funding.
The changes within the FAS and the College continue Harvard’s adoption of a new administrative vocabulary: one that eschews mentions of race, gender, or equity while emphasizing words like “community,” “diverse viewpoints,” and “growth.”
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