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Harvard Consolidates Diversity Websites Into New Academic Culture Office

U.S. federal agencies have warned Harvard that it may lose accreditation over potential antidiscrimination violations

A Harvard University gate is seen on campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States on May 24, 2025.
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Overview

  • Harvard took down websites for its Women’s Center, BGLTQ Student Life office and the Intercultural and Race Relations foundation and rerouted them to a newly created Office for Academic Culture and Community.
  • The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services alerted the New England Commission of Higher Education that Harvard may breach federal antidiscrimination laws and therefore risk its accreditation.
  • The accreditation warning follows a June 30 finding by the Trump administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism that Harvard violated the Civil Rights Act by failing to curb antisemitism.
  • Harvard is seeking to restore over $2.8 billion in frozen federal funds and to protect its international student enrollment in two pending lawsuits, with a hearing on the funding dispute set for July 21.
  • The latest overhaul builds on earlier steps including the April renaming of its central DEI office and internal reports on antisemitism and on anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias.