Harvard University faces pressure from the Trump Administration, which has threatened its $9 billion federal funding over concerns of antisemitism on campus. The administration's demands include sharing extensive hiring and admissions data, conducting audits to assess faculty and student viewpoints, and reducing faculty activism. A former Harvard expert reflects on the implications of governmental control over viewpoint diversity, drawing parallels with international experiences where such control led to detrimental societal impacts.
In order to "maintain Harvard's financial relationship with the federal government," the letter stated, it must agree to share all hiring and admissions data through 2028.
I have spent nearly all of my career at Harvard... and I saw firsthand the consequences of governments controlling "viewpoint diversity" in civil institutions.
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