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Harvard University renames its DEI office as its battle with the Trump administration expands to more fronts
CNN ^ | 04 29 2025 | Andy Rose and Karina Tsui

Posted on 04/29/2025 5:25:50 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Hours after Harvard University faced the Trump administration in court for the first time in its push to restore more than $2 billion in blocked federal funding, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college made a symbolic bow to White House demands, renaming its diversity, equity and inclusion office.

The change was announced Monday in an email to the campus community from the head of what had been the Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. It nods to a sweeping effort by President Donald Trump to eliminate DEI practices – designed to advance racial, gender, class and other representation in public spaces – he decries as “illegal and immoral discrimination.”

“We must sharpen our focus on fostering connections across difference, creating spaces for dialogue, and cultivating a culture of belonging – not as an abstract ideal, but as a lived experience for all,” Harvard’s Sherri Ann Charleston wrote. “To capture this emphasis and this mission, our office will become Community and Campus Life, effective immediately.”

Harvard further announced Monday it would no longer host or fund affinity group celebrations during commencement, reported the school’s student-led newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, citing an email Charleston sent that day to affinity groups. The decision was made after the Department of Education threatened funding cuts if Harvard did not cancel graduation celebrations that could separate students based on race, it reported.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; dei; education; harvard; poisonivyleague; trump
Harvard blinked.
1 posted on 04/29/2025 5:25:50 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
Too little. Too late. Zero them out.

2 posted on 04/29/2025 5:30:24 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: yesthatjallen

They should never get a dime and should lose tax exemption.


3 posted on 04/29/2025 5:30:27 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Same clowns. Different costumes. Unless they get rid of everybody. (Ha Ha)


4 posted on 04/29/2025 5:31:29 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: yesthatjallen
"...made a symbolic bow to White House demands, renaming its diversity, equity and inclusion office"

So typical of leftist lunatics...they think a mere renaming of something is the same as redirecting it or abolishing it. The bard described that long ago.

Except in this case it should be "A stinking pile of excrement by any other name would reek as bad."

5 posted on 04/29/2025 5:31:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: yesthatjallen

What is it now? The Racist Muzzie Jew Killer Department?


6 posted on 04/29/2025 6:07:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. "Judiciary. Putting Foreign Illegal Aliens Criminals first. They are here ILLEGALLY!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Havard figured that they’ll get the federal funds back when Gavin Newsom becomes President on 1/20/2029.


7 posted on 04/29/2025 6:09:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: yesthatjallen

The office is now named Stupit Whyte Need Killin.


8 posted on 04/29/2025 6:24:42 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: yesthatjallen
It's still a terrorist madrassa.

Drone the trustees.

9 posted on 04/29/2025 7:07:33 PM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
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To: yesthatjallen

The Office of Irreality and Unicorn Wishes


10 posted on 04/29/2025 7:36:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: yesthatjallen

They are all laying low and riding it out while accepting the money while they lie. These parasites dont fool us


11 posted on 04/30/2025 1:47:53 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (t)
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