Harvard
News from on the ground at Harvard.
Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor. Why?
A 25-minute documentary on Harvard’s Roland Fryer, recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship.
A Free Speech Problem?
The Crimson Editorial Board responds to a recent New York Times piece on America’s free speech problem: “We approach the issue with the humility of a student Editorial Board, but we do feel the Times has hit on some common, misguided tropes of the anti-cancel-culture discourse.”
I Want an American Accent
In this Op-Ed, Ochieng describes the struggle of straddling his Kenyan identity and living (and communicating) in America. The piece, while focused on accents, speaks to the tension between assimilation and multiculturalism in a pluralistic society.
Harvard Law School Drops Out of Top 3
In the U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings, HLS dropped to #4, tying with Columbia and falling behind #1 Yale, #2 Stanford and #3 University of Chicago. HLS declines were noted in peer assessments (by legal academics) and its graduate employment rate.
Let’s Talk About It: Crimson Op-Ed
In this op-ed, Avira Tyagi ‘25 asks fellow students to engage in hard conversations. “I am talking about the topics that make us uncomfortable. The conversations that result in harsh disagreement, draw a rift across generational divides, and culminate in fiery resentment.”
When Harvard Canceled a Black Professor
A summary of Harvard Professor Roland Fryer’s take-down as covered in a recent documentary. “[It’s] a tale of a vindictive former employee and others sharpening grievances for their own ends and a total denial of due process in favor of putting the man in the hands of his campus adversaries.”
Free Inquiry Suffers as War Fever Grips Harvard
University of Chicago law professor M. Todd Henderson takes issue with Harvard President Lawrence Bacow’s statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that such a statement is “antithetical to the mission of a university to take a position on the war—even if everyone on campus opposes it.”
HGSE Experts Split on Benefits of Standardized Testing
Harvard Graduate School of Education experts are divided on whether eliminating standardized testing requirements would move the college admissions process towards equity or away from it.
The Academic Herd Mind: Harvard’s Comaroff Letters
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Gutkin talks with Dumitrescu about her recent essay on the battling Harvard faculty letters in support and denunciation of John Comaroff, the Harvard professor accused of longstanding patterns of sexual harassment.
Sorry, Harvard, fathers still matter — including Black fathers
A Father’s Day article by FAIR Advisor and Harvard alum Ian Rowe (MBA ‘93) and UVA professor Brad Wilcox taking aim at Harvard research that diminishes the influence of fathers in the home and contradicts scholarship within its own ivy-covered walls. Using HLS alumnus and former President Obama’s own words about the importance of family and fathers, Rowe and Wilcox take a stand against a narrative detrimental to communities, families and youth.
Colleges Transformed Mission Misses the Mark
Berkowitz takes aim at the mission statements of Harvard, Princeton and Yale — “little recognition is found within the mission statements of our institutions of higher education that among their chief responsibilities is conserving the wisdom of the ages and of our civilization in particular.”