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.