Harvard Fights in Court but Retreats on Campus

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When Harvard sued the Trump administration two weeks ago, it took up the mantle of defiance — issuing a full-throated defense of academic freedom, invoking the Constitution, and rallying elite academia to its side.

But even as it takes the White House to court and insists that it won’t be coerced by federal pressure, Harvard is rolling out changes that seem to concede to some of the very demands that it claims are unconstitutional.

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Even as Harvard takes the White House to court and insists that it won’t be coerced by federal pressure, the University is rolling out changes that seem to concede to some of the very demands that it claims are unconstitutional.

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Just four days after suing the White House, Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 announced a process to convene a faculty panel to oversee cross-school protest cases and centralize disciplinary authority under the Office of the President. Garber framed the change as a response to inconsistent disciplinary outcomes across schools — but the timing was hard to ignore.

The Trump administration had called on Harvard to create “a disciplinary process housed in one body that is accountable to Harvard’s president” less than two weeks before in its April 11 letter to Massachusetts Hall.