I am sorry for the moments when we failed to meet the high expectations we rightfully set for our community,’ Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said in a statement.
WASHINGTON – As the federal government’s scrutiny of Harvard University intensifies, internal reviews released April 29 by the Ivy League school found evidence of Islamophobia and antisemitism on its campus.
One report revealed that nearly half of Muslim students and staff have felt unsafe on campus since the Israel-Hamas war broke out. The other described instances of Jewish students hiding their identities or taking leaves of absence to avoid harassment. Both reviews offered comprehensive, sometimes contradictory, recommendations, which Harvard’s president, Alan Garber, who is Jewish, said he was committed to taking seriously.
“Harvard cannot – and will not – abide bigotry,” Garber said in a statement.
The findings validate some of the concerns leveled by the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force. The interagency group froze billions of dollars in federal funding for the university on April 14, after Harvard refused to comply with a series of unprecedented demands to overhaul its admissions, hiring and teaching practices.
