Inside Harvard’s Discrimination Machine

City Journal ^ | 05/14/2025 | Christopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe

[DFG]

The Trump administration has escalated its battle with Harvard University, freezing all future grants and threatening to strip the school’s tax-exempt status. In response, Harvard has adopted some conciliatory measures— rebranding its DEI office and cancelling its racially segregated graduation ceremonies—but, behind the scenes, the university’s discrimination machine continues to operate at full capacity.

We’ve obtained a trove of internal documents that reveal Harvard’s racial favoritism in faculty and administrative hiring. The university’s DEI programs are more than “unconscious bias” training. They are vectors for systematic discrimination against disfavored groups: namely, white men. As one Harvard researcher told us, “endless evidence” suggests that the university continues to discriminate against the supposed oppressor class in hiring and promotions.

For years, Harvard’s DEI department has explicitly sought to engineer a more racially “diverse” faculty pool. The university-wide Inclusive Hiring Initiative provided “guidelines and training” for those involved in the hiring process and was explicitly tied to Harvard’s DEI goals. The stated mission of the initiative is to “[i]nstill an understanding of how departments can leverage the selection process” to build “an increasingly diverse workforce.”

In another hiring guide, “Best Practices for Conducting Faculty Searches,” the university recommends several discriminatory practices. At the beginning of the hiring process, Harvard instructs search committees to “ensure that the early lists include women and minorities” and to “consider reading the applications of women and minorities first.” The university counsels that committee chairs should “continually monitor” the racial composition of the candidate list and, as they narrow it down, “attend to all women and minorities on the long list.”

[sten]

this is just harvard. it’s been going on across the country in all schools... saw an article that mentioned the top 200 schools used ‘diversity scores’ to keep white men out.

15+ years.

how many people never found a career. never got started. had their education undermined since the 90s, when hillary told teachers to stop calling on boys... because we need more girls in college (girls were already over 50% female at the time)

these people are the insurrectionists whov’e worked to undermine and destroy the country.

the damage is incalculable.

[Honorary Serb]

I have a PhD from Harvard.

I love Harvard as it used to be when I was there, even though I had a tough time earning my PhD! It was dominated by white men, but it was a meritocracy with good women there, too. Veritas!

For its own sake, and for the sake of American excellence, Harvard needs to get back to something like it used to be. No more DEI. Don’t concede higher education and research to China!

[dfwgator]

[faithhopecharity]

the racism is intense at many public colleges too

we know several taxpayer-supported public colleges where they are chopping class schedules .. making it harder and harder for students to complete their studies on time (and in some instances, even complete their studies at all).

why? because they “overspent” in a couple of areas... one, comprising over half of the claimed “budget imbalance” — is their DEI-type stuff.... lots and lots of racist, sexist, and other “special programs, special activities, special clubs, special welfare-type benefits, you name it...” which are doled out largely on a racist basis. And the college’s internal training program has been hijacked into giving “classes” like “How to make sure your grading system is Equitable and Inclusive”

Plus, they’ve hired entire offices full of DEI monitors, people to watch everyone else on campus and make sure that everybody complies with the party line

[Moltke]

(girls were already over 50% female at the time)

I know what you meant and that it's a typo....but THAT is seriously funny also. 🤣🤣🤣

[sten]

yea... meant to say COLLEGES were already over 50% girls...

of course, these days... to say girls are over 50% girl is something the trannies would try to toss out there.