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To Avoid Federal Micromanagement, Harvard Must Earn Trust
The best way to promote a good deal with the Trump administration is to combine touting the great things at Harvard with a determination to fix the things that are not great. This is how to build the trust needed for Harvard to work together with the government to make universities great again.
The Trump Lawsuit You Haven’t Heard of Is the Real Game Changer
This week’s ruling is an important vindication of that core mission. And in winning our own independently enforceable judicial order, our organizations have helped protect our community’s essential rights from being bargained away in any backroom deal.
Harvard Should Require Pre-Orientation
By expanding resources to pre-orientation programs and introducing a new lottery system, Harvard can reaffirm its dedication to an enhanced first-year experience.
My Lab Displayed A Message of Solidarity on Our Windows. Harvard Took It Down.
If we continue down this path, we risk not only Harvard’s future as an institution of free inquiry and expression but also its integrity and trustworthiness.
Harvard Doesn’t Think You Deserve a Seat at the Table
Harvard's pattern of labor suppression makes it clear that it does not think its workers deserve a seat at the table. It does not want students, faculty, or staff to have a real say in running this institution.
Harvard Taught Me to Speak Out. Big Law Fired Me When I Did.
I didn’t end up in conflict with Harvard’s values — I ended up in conflict with a system where those values were never meant to survive.
Harvard Has Purged Its Values Alongside Its DEI Websites
Harvard thrives on a precedent of convenient non-communication. But make no mistake, this was a choice. A choice to strip away our infrastructure in the shadows, replace identity-based support with ambiguous language, comply without admitting they're doing it, and commence the destruction of our communities.
President Garber, a Bad Deal With Trump Will Not Protect Us
But without academic freedom, Harvard can no longer call itself a university. A deal with the White House can never infringe on our pursuit of veritas by allowing the federal government to restrict which courses we can take, students can be admitted, and professors can stay. Harvard can never be complicit in infringing on our personal rights to integrity and free speech.
This Isn’t Negotiation. It’s Authoritarian Extortion.
Defending democracy requires sacrifice. There are moments when we must pay a price to ensure the long-term survival of our basic freedoms. This is one of those moments.
What Makes Harvard Great
The same forces behind events like January 6th and anti-LGBTQ legislation are driving the assault on higher education fueled by an unrelenting obsession with all things “DEI.” Their real target? Multicultural democracy and human freedom.
Senator Chris Van Hollen: Class of 2025, If Not You, Who?
Today, we face many challenges: economic inequality, climate chaos, brutal conflicts and wars, technological disruption, and a polarizing, poisonous political climate. And you, our next generation of leaders, have a say in how we respond to those challenges. You have a voice — but only if you use it.
To the Class of 2025: Congratulations on a Life Lived in Four Years
In college you have played, consciously or otherwise, at the fullness of life. As you confront the end of this span of your lives, you have the blessing of reflecting on and growing from what you did and who you were, and thereby the opportunity to begin your adult lives wiser and stronger.
Fight Fiercely for Harvard Values
Experienced voices are calling this a moment of existential crisis for Harvard and for American higher education. But for the Class of 2025 this crisis is also an opportunity: to fight fiercely for the values that Harvard has instilled in you, as it did in me when I matriculated here in the Class of 1964.
Harvard Defended You. Now It’s Your Turn.
University leadership would be unable to contest governmental tyranny without the wherewithal supplied by admirers, allies, and alumni — people like you who have been tremendously benefitted by the knowledge and know-how that Harvard bequeaths to the world. Do what you can to assist in this trying moment.
Welcome to Harvard. Everything is Fine. (Seriously.)
Let’s get one thing straight. The most unsafe I have ever felt as a student at Harvard University was on my second day of orientation, when I was chased screaming across the Yard by an angry wild turkey. Us kids are alright.
