Harvard Dean of Students Says College Diversity Offices Have No Plans to Cut Programming
“All students can and should be engaging with these centers.”
Progressives in higher education can continue to defy Trump if they choose to, but it’s going to cost them.
From the Harvard Crimson:
After Trump’s Demands, Dean of Students Says College Diversity Offices Have No Plans To Cut Programming
Harvard College Dean of Students Thomas G. Dunne said in an interview with The Crimson on Tuesday that he does not expect the College’s diversity offices to be affected by the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Less than a week after three federal agencies conditioned Harvard’s federal funding on cutting its DEI programs, Dunne said the DSO was “operating in the arena right now with the same plans that we had at the start of the year.”
The three offices — the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, the Office of BGLTQ Student Life, and the Women’s Center — are all housed under the DSO’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion team.
The Trump administration’s demands to Harvard on Thursday asked the University to ax its DEI programs as the government reviews nearly $9 billion in funding commitments to Harvard and affiliated hospitals.
“DEI programs teach students, faculty, staff, and leadership to make snap judgments about each other based on crude race and identity stereotypes, which fuels division and hatred based on race, color, national origin, and other protected identity characteristics,” the letter read. “All efforts should be made to shutter such programs.”
But Dunne said he anticipated programming and events associated with the College’s diversity offices would continue as usual because they serve the entire student body.
“Those are events that are open to all students and so our expectation is that we continue the programs that we always have done,” Dunne said. “All students can and should be engaging with these centers.”
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Let’s make it a 3 strikes policy. On the third strike, all federal money is PERMANENTLY gone.
I think Harvard is on strike 12.
This clown got his degree in American studies (that great bastion of anti-Americanism and antisemitism) and has spent his “career” grifting in education apparently without actually ever teaching anything. In other word this fat load is a forever manager without useful skills. a complete waste of oxygen so it is no surprise he is attracted to DEI.
The truth is, when we laughed at the kids taking easy woke majors while we slaved at hard majors, they may have made the better career choice. The effort needed to reverse their control of our system will be massive. Trump is trying, we need to help as much as we can, but they fight very hard too.
Well there were no easy woke majors when I was in college. They might have just started being introduced but the only people with easy times were jocks. Well may be art, music, and dance majors might have it easier but you at least had to have some sort of talent to be one of those. We didn’t have film majors yet and victim studies hadn’t proliferated.
The Trump administration should withhold the billions that this bastion of Nazi-like behavior receives. The arrogance of their administrators and their lawless behavior should be punished as much the Federal government can. Withhold every cent possible. It has an endowment of $50+billion. Let them use the some of its billions. If their administrators can be prosecuted , which I believe that can since they are engaging in similar behavior White Supremacists like George Wallace did in the 1950 and 60s. US National Guard troops were used in the South that individual or very small numbers of Blacks could attend Southern Universities. The current administration should use similar methods against Harvard.
No student should be wasting their time engaging with these centers. But Harvard has the name, the luxurious campus and the ability to give lots of full ride financial aid, so it can do whatever it wants, and the customers will keep begging to get in.
I don’t find Harvard to be that luxurious.
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