For months, Harvard has fought to preserve the image of a university that stands up to President Trump, accruing small wins as it took on the federal government in court to defend its research funding and international students.
But there is one area where the school has indicated it is willing to make concessions: diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Harvard and the Trump administration are negotiating behind closed doors as the federal government demands the university make changes to areas such as admissions decisions and faculty hiring. Before any deal has been struck, however, the university made changes including merging centers aimed at minority students, women, and LGBTQ students into one “Office of Culture and Community”; combining a recruitment program focused on attaining students of color with others; changing how student leaders are trained and identify themselves to peers; and altering campus signage rules, removing a prominent Black Lives Matter banner.
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Evan Doerr, a Harvard sophomore and chair of the Harvard Institute of Politics’ Conservative Coalition, said changes to Harvard’s “DEI bureaucracy have been largely cosmetic.” Doerr said the university should “provide clear transparency” about campus programming and policies.
“Personnel is policy, and the same people remain in charge, many of whom were and still are true believers in the programs they were hired to operate,” Doerr said, adding he and other conservative students believe there are still “areas of campus where progressive ideology remains entrenched and unaddressed.”
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Harvard joins other colleges nationwide changing as the Trump administration has waged war on diversity initiatives and what it describes as left-leaning tilts on college campuses. The administration is investigating dozens of schools it says employ “racial preferences” in selecting students or faculty.
Those investigations come as the Trump administration tried to slash nearly $3 billion in federal funding from Harvard and bar the school from hosting international students — though it has so far lost in court. Harvard, since last summer, has negotiated with the federal government to resolve legal disputes, talks Education Secretary Linda McMahon said were ongoing as of November.
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