Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a public letter on Monday that demands made by the Department of Education last week would allow the federal government “to control the Harvard community” and threaten the school’s “values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.” If the review finds that the existing faculty in the relevant department or field are not capable of hiring for viewpoint diversity, or that the relevant teaching unit is not capable of admitting a critical mass of students with diverse viewpoints, hiring or admissions within that department, field, or teaching unit shall be transferred to the closest cognate department. On the other side of the river, a story that has developed legs, as we used to say around the city desk on Harrison Avenue, is the story of Nicole Micheroni, the Boston lawyer who received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security informing her that she had to deport herself by the weekend.
Author: Charles P. Pierce
Published at: 2025-04-15 22:11:00
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