Inside Harvard’s Discrimination Machine

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

[T Ruth]

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. ...

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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.”

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Harvard’s discriminatory programs are not limited to faculty hiring. According to one of the internal documents we obtained, the university has adopted explicit racial hiring goals for administrative and support positions under the guise of affirmative action. For various divisions and occupations within the school, Harvard lists the percentage of each workforce that belongs to a “protected class,” as well as target goals. For example, the university declared a goal of increasing the share of minorities in one department’s alumni affairs office nearly sixfold, and of raising the share of female assistants in the School of Public Health to more than 90 percent.

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[T Ruth]

This paperwork barrier should not be a problem. All one has to do is lie like The Honorable Senator Elizabeth Warren.

In February 2019 the Washington Post surfaced Warren’s 1986 registration card for the State Bar of Texas, on which she identified her race as “American Indian.”

When Warren was at U. Penn. Law School she put herself on the "Minority Law Teacher" list as Native American in the faculty directory of the Association of American Law Schools. Harvard Law School at one time promoted Warren as a Native American faculty member.

[sten]

Any white male rejected by Harvard should immediately file a discrimination case against them

[Gay State Conservative]

Years ago I dated a Radcliffe grad (Radcliffe is now part of Harvard).She told me that a classmate of hers who had become a Vice Chancellor of Admissions at Harvard told her that were it not for Harvard's “unique” admissions policies every Freshman class would be made up entirely of Asians and Jews.

[Gay State Conservative]

Howie Carr...a great Boston talk show host and columnist...talks often about Liawatha. He’s got info on her that’s very,very interesting indeed.

[BobL]

“Harvard Law School at one time promoted Warren as a Native American faculty member.”

Bad enough that she got away with lying back then - but her career as a US Senator would not have happened had she been truthful...as Harvard was her launching point.

[newfreep]