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☆ House committee issues unprecedented subpoenas to Harvard in antisemitism investigation
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —A congressional committee investigating campus antisemitism took the unprecedented step of issuing multiple subpoenas to Harvard University on Friday, compelling the Ivy League school to turn over documents lawmakers are seeking. Three different Harvard officials are being subpoenaed: Alan Garber, Harvard’s interim president; Penny Pritzker, the billionaire leader of the Harvard Corporation, the governing board of the school; and N.P. The subpoenas order the Harvard officials to produce a series of documents by 5 pm ET on March 4. That list included meeting minutes since Hamas’ October 7 terror attacks on Israel and communications by university officials related to antisemitism. “Given the breadth and extensive nature of the information Harvard has provided to the Committee, it is unfortunate that the Committee has chosen to issue subpoenas,” Swain said.

Persons: Virginia Foxx, ” Foxx, Nick Barley, Alan Garber, Penny Pritzker, Narvekar, Foxx, Jonathan Swain, “, ” Swain, Swain, ”, “ Harvard’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Harvard University, Ivy League, Rep, House Education, Workforce Committee, Harvard, CNN, Education, Labor, Harvard Corporation, Harvard Management Company Locations: New York, Israel

☆ Harvard taps ex-Merck CEO Ken Frazier to join embattled board
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Former Merck CEO Ken Frazier and KKR co-CEO Joseph Bae are joining Harvard University’s top board as the Ivy League school seeks to turn the page on a tumultuous period. Harvard announced the changes on Sunday evening, saying Frazier will start Wednesday to fill the open seat on the Harvard Corporation, the powerful yet secretive board under fire its handling of the recent controversies. Frazier, who graduated Harvard Law School in 1978, served as CEO of Merck and sat on the board of ExxonMobil, is widely respected in the business community. In 2017, Frazier quit former President Donald Trump’s manufacturing council in response to Trump’s initial failure to condemn white supremacists. Bae graduated from Harvard in 1994 and today he’s one of the most powerful private equity executives in the world.

Persons: Ken Frazier, Joseph Bae, Frazier, Bae, Paul Finnegan, Claudine Gay, ”, Alan Garber, Penny Pritzker, ” Harvard, Pritzker, megadonor, Gay, Donald Trump’s, Catalyst, Garber Organizations: New, New York CNN, Merck, KKR, Harvard University’s, Ivy League, Harvard, Harvard Corporation, Corporation, Democratic Party, Harvard Law School, ExxonMobil Locations: New York, Asia

☆ Opinion: Elon Musk, Harvard and the art of ‘taking action’ while doing nothing
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Elon Musk, who spends much of his time on futuristic endeavors, took a step into history on Monday. Like in other entities where an upsurge in antisemitic activity started making headlines, Musk was taking performative action at Auschwitz. It was an effort to appear to be taking action while doing nothing. After his visit to the death camp, Musk appeared at a conference on antisemitism in nearby Krakow, Poland. President Claudine Gay was asked in Congress if calls for genocide against Jews violate Harvard rules against bullying and harassment.

Persons: Frida Ghitis, CNN — Elon Musk, Musk, “ Hitler, ”, ” Musk, dumbest, George Soros “, Ted Deutch, Elders of Zion, X, “, Tucker Carlson, Claudine Gay, Israel “, Israel, he’s “, Alan Garber, Garber, Derek Penslar, Penslar, Larry Summers Organizations: CNN, Washington Post, Politics, Frida Ghitis CNN, Center, Twitter, Defamation, American Jewish Committee, Elders of, Media Matters, Apple, Disney, IBM, Media, Harvard University, Harvard, Jewish, Harvard’s, Jewish Studies Locations: Auschwitz, Israel, Gaza, United States, Krakow, Poland

☆ Larry Summers blasts Harvard over antisemitism: ‘I have lost confidence’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Famed economist Larry Summers slammed Harvard’s top leaders on Sunday over concerns about how the Ivy League school is fighting antisemitism. Summers, a former president of Harvard, strongly criticized the selection of Harvard professor Derek Penslar as the co-chair of a newly-formed presidential task force on antisemitism. “I have lost confidence in the determination and ability of the Harvard Corporation and Harvard leadership to maintain Harvard as a place where Jews and Israelis can flourish,” Summers said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. The task forces will be charged with examining bias, determining root causes and compiling recommendations to combat hate. “As things currently stand, I am unable to reassure Harvard community members, those we are recruiting or prospective students that Harvard is making progress in countering anti-Semitism,” Summers said.

Persons: Larry Summers, Harvard’s, Summers, Derek Penslar, “, ” Summers, Claudine Gay, Clinton, Obama, Penslar, ”, ” Penslar, Israel, Israel’s, Bill Ackman, “ Harvard, Alison Frank Johnson, Steven Levitsky, stnd, ” Alan Garber, ” Garber, Penny Pritzker Organizations: New, New York CNN, Ivy League, Harvard, Harvard Corporation, Twitter, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, CNN, American Academy for Jewish Research, North America ”, The Corporation Locations: New York, Israel, Gaza, North America

☆ Harvard's first Black president received so many death threats that police watched her residence 24/7, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-06 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gay, who last year became the first Black president in Harvard's nearly 400-year history, had retained the support of the powerful Harvard Corporation after her widely-criticized congressional testimony. Throughout the ordeal, she received a torrent of death threats, racist notes, and phone calls which only intensified as December progressed, according to The Times. Gay, who had only recently moved into the Harvard president's official residence, would pick up the phone only to be met with racial slurs, per the report. AdvertisementThe Times also reported that Gay's residence was being watched 24 hours a day. In her statement, Gay also called out not only critics of her prior work but also the personal racist attacks that had been lobbed at her.

Persons: Claudine Gay's, Gay, Ryan D, Enos Organizations: Harvard, Harvard Corporation, Jewish, The New York Times, The Times, Jan, Corporation Locations: Harvard's, Israel, Cambridge, United States

☆ Bill Ackman's celebrity academic wife Neri Oxman's dissertation is marred by plagiarism
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-04 | by ( Katherine Long | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Harvard's president, Claudine Gay, resigned after conservative activists revealed she had plagiarized. But for Bill Ackman, the plagiarism wasn't only cause for Gay's immediate ouster as Harvard's president — it also warranted her total removal from its faculty. AdvertisementGay resigned as Harvard's president on Tuesday. One remains: Kornbluth, the president of MIT, where Oxman wrote her thesis and worked from 2010 to 2020. "Stay tuned @MIT," Ackman replied.

Persons: Claudine Gay, Bill Ackman, —, Ackman's, Neri Oxman, Oxman, Ackman, Gay, Elle, Björk, Brad Pitt, Jeffrey Epstein, Sally Kornbluth, Kornbluth, Liz Magill, Steve Weiner, Daniel Wagner, Peder Anker, Claus Mattheck, Weiner, Wagner, MIT Oxman, George Reid Andrews, Andrews, Christopher Rufo, Magill Organizations: Harvard, Gay, Service, Israel's, Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York Times, New York's Museum of Modern Art, MIT, Boston Globe, Pershing Square Foundation, Pershing Square Capital Management, University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Royal Society of London, University of Pittsburgh, New York Post, Harvard Corporation, Ackman Locations: Gaza, Harvard's, New York City, German, New

☆ A Harvard student reacts to resignation of Claudine Gay
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-03 | by ( Tim Paradis | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Harvard University's president, Claudine Gay, resigned Tuesday. A current Harvard law student told Business Insider why she's happy to see Gay step down. One current Harvard law student told Business Insider she was glad Gay resigned. President Gay is not at the level that you would expect a Harvard president to be at." I just didn't see a lot of empathy coming from President Gay at all."

Persons: Claudine Gay, Gay, —, Gay's, Bill Ackman, Elise Stefanik, Weeks, it'd, hasn't, Joe Biden, Ketanji Brown Jackson, She's, Harvard's, Alan Garber Organizations: Harvard, Service, Harvard University, Gay, New York Post Locations: Israel

☆ What Harvard students have to say about the bombshell resignation of embattled president Claudine Gay
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-03 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewFrom excitement to frustration, Harvard University students had mixed reactions to the bombshell Tuesday resignation of the Ivy League school's embattled president, Claudine Gay. AdvertisementSome Harvard students hailed Gay's resignation, while others viewed it as a submission to powerful donors and political figures. "I think it is, if anything, too late," said Alex Bernat, a junior at the elite Massachusetts university, told The New York Times. AdvertisementAnother Harvard student, Ru'Quan Brown, told the Crimson that Gay's resignation "sets a bad precedent for future presidents." The professor added that he was "saddened for Harvard and higher education" with the news of Gay's resignation.

Persons: —, Claudine Gay, Gay, Gay's, Alex Bernat, Bernat, Joshua Kaplan, Bernat's, Kaplan, Sanaa Kahloon, Jeremy O.S, Ornstein, Crimson, Bill Ackman, Elise Stefanik, Harvard's, Orenstein, Ru'Quan Brown, Brown, Chukwudi Ilozue, Ryan Enos, Enos, Stefanik, Liz Magill, Claudine Gay's Organizations: Service, Harvard University, Ivy League school's, Harvard, Business, Harvard Corporation, Massachusetts, New York Times, Harvard Crimson, Times, GOP, WBZ, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Gay, University of Pennsylvania's, U.S . Congress Locations: Palestine, New York, Israel

☆ Harvard board accepts Claudine Gay's resignation 'with sorrow.' It says she was subjected to 'deeply personal attacks.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-02 | by ( Clementine Fletcher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

While the Harvard Corporation and faculty members backed Gay, the pressure continued. First and foremost, we thank President Gay for her deep and unwavering commitment to Harvard and to the pursuit of academic excellence. She believes passionately in Harvard's mission of education and research, and she cares profoundly about the people whose talents, ideas, and energy drive Harvard. An economist and a physician, he is a distinguished and wide-ranging scholar with appointments at Harvard Medical School, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard T.H. While President Gay has acknowledged missteps and has taken responsibility for them, it is also true that she has shown remarkable resilience in the face of deeply personal and sustained attacks.

Persons: Gay, Claudine Gay's, Alan M, Garber, –, missteps, Provost Garber, of Harvard College Penny Pritzker, Timothy R, Barakett, Kenneth I, Chenault Mariano, Florentino, Tino, Cuéllar Paul J, Finnegan Biddy Martin Karen Gordon Mills Diana L, Nelson Tracy P, Palandjian Shirley M, Tilghman Theodore V, Wells, Jr Organizations: Harvard Corporation, Harvard Community, Harvard, Social Science, of Arts and Sciences –, FAS, Harvard Medical School, Harvard's, of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, of Public Health, of Harvard College Locations: MIT's, Chan

☆ Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents to testify before Congress on antisemitism
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —The presidents of Harvard University, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania are scheduled to testify before Congress next week at a hearing on antisemitism on campus, lawmakers announced Tuesday. “College and university presidents have a responsibility to foster and uphold a safe learning environment for their students and staff. Now is not a time for indecision or milquetoast statements.”According to the House committee, the hearing will include testimony from Harvard President Claudine Gay, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Penn President Liz Magill. “President Gay looks forward to sharing updates and information on the university’s work to support the Harvard community and combat antisemitism,” Harvard spokesperson Jason Newton said in a statement to CNN. Last weekend three Palestinian college students were shot in Burlington, Vermont.

Persons: Virginia Foxx, ” Foxx, Claudine Gay, Sally Kornbluth, Liz Magill, Gay, ”, Jason Newton, “, Magill, Penn, ” Penn, Steve Silverman, Marc Rowan, Dick Wolf, Jon Huntsman, Leon Cooperman, Israel, Nir Barkat Organizations: New, New York CNN, Harvard University, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Education, Israel, Republican Rep, “, “ College, Penn, Harvard, CNN, Columbia, Ivy League, of Education, Cornell University , Columbia Locations: New York, Israel, Burlington , Vermont

☆ Opinion | An Old Hate Cracks Open on the New Right
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

A dam burst last week on the right, and a wave of grotesque antisemitism poured out all over the internet. Some of these people worked for the right wing’s biggest names, including Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump. On Nov. 3, Owens posted on social media, “No government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide, ever. And maybe he loves Israel and he loves America too.” Owens, he said, “is a bit more America first. And finally, the term “America First,” popular with the New Right and the older, Lindbergh right, has always been misleading.

Persons: Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Owens, Israel, Shapiro, Jason Whitlock, ” Owens, “, ” “ I’m, ”, Elon Musk, X —, Charlie Kirk, Kirk, Charles Lindbergh, Lindbergh, Roosevelt, Pat Buchanan, Richard Nixon, William F, Buckley Jr, Buchanan, Elena Kagan, ” Buchanan, Nicole Hemmer, Reaganism, haltingly Organizations: Daily Wire, Daily, Twitter, America, Harvard, Jewish, Republican Party, Republican, Israeli Defense Ministry, New Locations: America, Israel, Pittsburgh, Iraq, United States

☆ Premarket stocks: Why the American Whiskey industry is freaking out
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Between June 2018 and December 2021 there was a 25% tax imposed on the spirit, which decreased American whiskey exports by 18%. American whiskey exports to the EU jumped 118% in the first half of 2023 when compared to the same period in 2022. They went back and forth until 2021 when the tariffs on American whiskey were suspended and we took a great sigh of relief. The Biden administration’s leadership and efforts on this have enabled the suspension of tariffs on American whiskey and all distilled spirits products, but we are rightly anxious because a 50% tariff on American whiskey would be beyond devastating to exports. Since those tariffs have been suspended, we’ve seen American whiskey exports rebound to beyond pre-pandemic levels.

Persons: Bell, Chris Swonger, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Ursula von der Leyen, we’re, Biden, We’ve, we’ve, It’s, Gina Raimondo, ” Raimondo, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Raimondo, ”, Read, Bill Ackman, Leslie Wexner, —, “, Claudine Gay, Dean, Harvard College Rakesh Khurana, Gay Organizations: CNN Business, Bell, New York CNN, EU, European Commission, European Union, Biden administration’s, US, China, Commerce Department, Harvard, Harvard University, Pershing, Harvard College, Harvard College Jewish Alumni Association, ” Harvard, “ Harvard, Council, Advancement Locations: New York, United States, EU, China, Taiwan, Israel

☆ Harvard alumni group threatens to withdraw donations over antisemitism concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Organizers say it is the first Jewish alumni association in the history of the university. Harvard President Gay wrote a letter to members of the larger Harvard community addressing the tensions on Thursday. While a large chunk of university donations come from big gifts, small donations from alumni are becoming an increasingly important source of funding for higher education, according to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Universities like to tout the high number of donations they receive to show that they have an engaged alumni base, said CASE. More than 300 Cooper Union alumni also recently threatened to end donations over the New York school’s response to anti-Israel protests.

Persons: Bill Ackman, Leslie Wexner, —, “, ”, Claudine Gay, Dean, Harvard College Rakesh Khurana, Rebecca Claire Brooks, Gay, Brooks, ” Brooks, ” Cooper Organizations: New, New York CNN, Harvard University, Harvard, Pershing, Harvard College, Harvard College Jewish Alumni Association, Organizers, Jewish, Holocaust, CNN, “ Harvard, Council, Advancement, Universities, Cooper Union Locations: New York, Israel

☆ Harvard has become the poster child for American culture wars in the 11 days since Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel. Here's what's happened.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Harvard University has become a flashpoint in the intergenerational divide on the Israel-Hamas war. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the 11 days since Palestinian militant group Hamas launched its terrorist attack on Israel, Harvard University has become a flashpoint for intergenerational tensions about the war — and the broader culture war around campus free speech. Hamas launches terrorist attacks on IsraelPalestinian militant group Hamas launched a series of terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, with Israel retaliating. AdvertisementAdvertisement"These hateful Harvard students are the future leaders of our society," Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York wrote on X. Some student groups backtrackSome student groups that co-signed the original statement have since withdrawn their signatures.

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☆ Names and faces of Harvard students linked to an anti-Israel statement were plastered on mobile billboards and online sites
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —A billboard truck drove near Harvard’s campus Wednesday displaying the names and photos of Harvard students whose organizations signed a statement blaming solely Israel for the deadly attacks by Hamas. Some students and their groups have since distanced themselves or withdrawn their endorsements from the statement amid an intense backlash inside and outside of Harvard. A conservative nonprofit said it organized the truck featuring the virtual billboards with students’ names and images under a banner that reads: “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites.” It also published names online. “We will continue to reject the PSC’s statement in the strongest terms — and demand accountability for those who signed it,” the statement added. In the wake of the mounting backlash, at least eight of the original 34 co-signing Harvard student groups had withdrawn their signature from the statement as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the Harvard Crimson student newspaper.

Persons: ”, Israel, “, Hillel, “ Harvard Hillel, Laurence Tribe, McCarthy, Bill Ackman, Larry Summers, Meredith Weenick, ” Weenick, – CNN’s Matt Egan Organizations: New, New York CNN, Harvard, Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups, CNN, Palestine Solidarity, ” Harvard, Harvard Crimson, Harvard University, Harvard University Police Department Locations: New York, Harvard’s, Israel, Gaza

☆ Harvard says it will comply with US Supreme Court ruling, preserve its values
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - Harvard University said on Thursday it will comply with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down its race-conscious student admissions programs in a way that will preserve its values on diversity and opportunity in higher education. "We will certainly comply with the Court’s decision," the prestigious university said in a statement. "In the weeks and months ahead, drawing on the talent and expertise of our Harvard community, we will determine how to preserve, consistent with the Court’s new precedent, our essential values." The Supreme Court ruling involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina was a sharp setback to affirmative action policies often used to increase the number of Black, Hispanic and other underrepresented minority groups on campuses. The 386-year-old Ivy League school's top administrators issued a letter to the Harvard community that was essentially a reprimand to the high court.

Persons: Caitlin Webber, Doina, Kanishka Singh, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Harvard University, U.S, Supreme, Harvard, University of North, Ivy League school's, Thomson Locations: University of North Carolina

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