Harvard president urges the school to address lack of conservatives on campus

Harvard’s president said the deficiency of conservatives connected the Ivy League campus, and fearfulness of expressing "unpopular" views among students and module are problems the schoolhouse "really need[s] to address."

"The medication and others person said conservatives are excessively fewer connected field and their views are not welcome. In truthful acold arsenic that's true, that's a occupation we truly request to address," Harvard President Alan Garber told NPR.

Garber said the assemblage needed to code a deficiency of "viewpoint diversity" connected its campus, sharing however students don’t consciousness escaped to talk their minds. He added however module members person to "think twice" earlier teaching definite subjects. Garber said radical person travel guardant claiming a stifling situation connected campus. 

President of Harvard University Alan Garber addresses the assemblage during the 373rd Commencement astatine Harvard University.  ((Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images))

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"Many members of our assemblage person been alarmed that students person go progressively reluctant to talk openly astir arguable oregon uncomfortable topics, particularly if they judge their idiosyncratic views are unpopular. That’s a occupation we request to solve," Garber said successful a abstracted interrogation with The Harvard Gazette. 

Garber was appointed arsenic president of Harvard successful August 2024 aft having served arsenic interim president starting successful Janurary 2024. His predecessor, erstwhile President Claudine Gay resigned amid mounting antisemitism astatine the university, a plagiarism ungraded and disastrous grounds earlier Congress. Gay said calls for exterminating the Jews were against Harvard’s codification of behaviour "depending connected the context" erstwhile questioned by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY., astatine the December 2023 hearing.

In the aftermath of expanding antisemitism connected assemblage campuses, Garber has faced escalating unit from the Trump administration to ace down connected antisemitism and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies. 

The White House froze $3.2 cardinal successful grants to Harvard, attempted to disqualify the schoolhouse from admitting planetary students, and instructed national agencies to cancel $100 cardinal of the remaining contracts with the schoolhouse connected Tuesday.

Former Harvard President Claudine Gay was accused of aggregate accounts of plagiarism successful caller weeks. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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"As a effect of your refusal to comply with aggregate requests to supply the Department of Homeland Security pertinent accusation portion perpetuating an unsafe field situation that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ policies, you person mislaid this privilege," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said successful a letter to Harvard.

Garber pushed backmost connected the administration’s attempts to ace down connected antisemitism by withholding probe grants to the university, claiming that wealth goes towards technological probe that benefits the country.

"What is perplexing is that the measures they’ve taken to code that don’t adjacent deed the aforesaid radical that they judge are causing the problems," Garber told NPR. 

The assemblage president went connected to accidental that the astir disturbing constituent of antisemitism connected his field arises from "shunning." He claimed Israeli students person spoken retired astir incidents wherever students refused to proceed talk with them aft learning of their nationality. However, Garber said the assemblage had made advancement successful combatting antisemitism implicit the past year.

Harvard module and unit clasp signs from wrong Harvard Yard during a property league by module supporters of the Harvard Out of Palestine conjugation extracurricular Harvard Yard.  (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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"There has been tremendous part connected field implicit that play of time. There are module and students who disagreed with 1 different astir what the assemblage should do. But the main intent of that study was to place the problems that we face, peculiarly with respect to our Jewish and Israeli students," helium said.