It has been nearly five months since Claudine Gay resigned as the president of Harvard and nearly six months since the disastrous congressional testimony that got her in trouble. But finally today it appears as if the university itself has learned something.
The Institutional Voice Working Group was given the task in April of writing a report on how and when the university should issue official statements on political and social issues. Today the group issued its brief report which suggested the correct answer was never unless the issue directly related to the running of a university. Here’s a sample:
To succeed, the university cultivates an environment in which its members can research, teach, and learn. This is its core function. It commits itself to the values of free inquiry, intellectual expertise, and productive argument among divergent points of view. These values, proper…
