The Wexner Foundation will stop funding fellowships at the Ivy League institution. Harvard was criticized for responding slowly to a student letter blaming Israel for the Hamas attack.
In the wake of the horrors perpetrated by Hamas on innocent Israeli citizens, leaders from President Biden to heads of cultural, political and advocacy organizations have felt compelled to speak out lest their silence be interpreted as a kind of complicity. College and university presidents have not escaped the compulsion to speak.
Most college and university presidents disagree with the decision on race-conscious admissions and think it will reduce diversity in higher education—just not at their institutions, a new survey finds. Scores of college presidents released public statements disagreeing with the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision on affirmative action, in a case that involved Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but had implications for all of higher education.