Harvard Abruptly Caves to Trump After Months of Fighting

[In It to Win It]

Harvard just quietly dismantled its undergraduate school’s offices for diversity, equity, and inclusion amid the university’s ongoing battle with Donald Trump’s administration.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which houses Harvard College, announced internally Wednesday that it would shutter its diversity office and replace it with the “Office for Academic Culture and Community,” according to The Harvard Crimson.

The sudden concession came the same day that Trump’s departments of Education and Health and Human Services went to Harvard University’s accreditor claiming that there was “strong evidence to suggest the school may no longer meet” accreditation standards. If the accreditor agreed, that would mean the school would lose access to federal student aid.

At the same time, several webpages for the university’s affinity organizations were removed, including the Harvard College Women’s Center, Office for BGLTQ Student Life, and Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-abruptly-caves-trump-months-193346423.html

[Passages]

1. Great, just great.

Damn them.

[cadoman]

8. if anyone had the resources to fight this, it was definitely Harvard

If they are too afraid to stand up to him I don't know what else is left. Stanford?

[EndlessWire]

2. Trump is determined to destroy

all the best things we have. I suppose we can restore lost programs after he's gone--let that be soon and swift. He's an ugly, vile creature.

[Shellback Squid]

3. It's a name change and reorganization, sucks that trump can claim a win

[newdeal2]

5. Let's hope so

[Shellback Squid]

6. much bigger brains at Harvard

[Cha]

13. Thanks for this.. I see Hope!

[spanone]

4. They all will. So fucked up.

[Celerity]

7. America's likely loss of many of its best uni students & instructors will hopefully be our gain here in the EU & the UK.

They are all welcome to explore the options we offer.

[róisín_dubh]

9. The UK university sector is fucked

Unless it’s Oxford or Cambridge. We can proudly thank the Tories and now Labour for that.
Helps if one is in STEM, but not by much.

Might be Europe’s gain, but not the UK. If anything they’re making it worse to migrate to the UK as well, and near on impossible to switch jobs (which is already difficult in academia).

Yes I’m bitter, because it’s my sector.

[Celerity]

10. Imperial College. Deffo not 'fucked'. nt

[róisín_dubh]

11. There's loads more unis than the Russell

Group ones.
200 of my colleagues just lost their jobs on voluntary severance and involuntary severance is coming.
Another few at UCL have lost theirs.
It’s happened up and down the country.

[Celerity]

14. I am more invested in the state of the EU these days than the UK anyways. Brexit and all that.

[róisín_dubh]

16. Can't say I blame you

What a self-inflicted, moronic wound Brexit is (and always was, but for the propaganda)

[Cha]

12. Ohh Noooo! GD that Fascists Fucks Exhorting

Harvard! I'm so sorry they had to give in to Nazis.

[speak easy]

17. Shell game Cha. Change the name and some of the personnel.

Give Krasnov his TV moment, then carry on as usual.

[GoodRaisin]

15. Krasnov ruins everything

Make America shit.