One area on which Harvard has indicated it is willing to concede to the Trump administration: diversity, equity, and ...

Harvard Medical School is revamping programs focused on diversity and a decades-long effort to recruit future doctors from underserved communities in response to an “ever-evolving national landscape.” ...

Harvard’s chief Community and Campus Life officer Sherri A. Charleston, who led the University’s diversity office before it was renamed in April, said at a Memorial Church service on Thursday that her ...

Ranya Brooks will serve as the inaugural director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Office of Belonging, Community, and ...

The Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program ended in May due to pressure from the Trump administration to eliminate DEI and race-conscious admissions. Harvard University quietly ended a program—the ...

Education Sec. Linda McMahon defended President Donald Trump's efforts to reform Harvard University during a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill. McMahon appeared before the Senate Appropriations ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously championed diversity in a 2013 policy brief for Havard’s Kennedy School before knocking it as a crutch for minorities during his current stint in the Trump ...

Harvard University has reportedly replaced its diversity offices in what has been described as a ‘DEI purge’ after its federal funding was frozen by President Donald Trump. According to Harvard’s ...

Harvard’s president said the lack of conservatives on the Ivy League campus, and fear of expressing "unpopular" views among students and faculty are problems the school "really need[s] to address." ...

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Days after the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major win allowing federal agencies to proceed with cuts to diversity-related grants, the administration has turned its sights on another ...