On April 29, Harvard released its long-awaited report on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias, revealing over 300 pages of testimony, analysis, and recommendations.
Obviously, what Harvard (and the other Ivy League universities, but starting with Harvard) needs is an administrative revolution: a new president with the power and determination to overhaul the entire academic curriculum and composition of the faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and other adjacent disciplines. A good place to start would be re-instituting a core curriculum required of all first and second year students. It could be a traditional two year course in Western Civilization; or, better yet, a two year course in the comparative history of world civilizations, with the emphasis on the origins, history, and unlikely triumph of those liberal ideals and institutions that distinguish the West. He (or she) might also consider replacing DEI or admissions based strictly on test scores with "affirmative action for all" (AAA), the idea being to admit student bodies that are fully representative of the ethnic, racial, and geographic diversity of America. That would pass Supreme Court review.
This might not, in fact would not, be suitable for STEM, which argues for institutional separation between the liberal arts and the hard sciences.
Obviously, what Harvard (and the other Ivy League universities, but starting with Harvard) needs is an administrative revolution: a new president with the power and determination to overhaul the entire academic curriculum and composition of the faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and other adjacent disciplines. A good place to start would be re-instituting a core curriculum required of all first and second year students. It could be a traditional two year course in Western Civilization; or, better yet, a two year course in the comparative history of world civilizations, with the emphasis on the origins, history, and unlikely triumph of those liberal ideals and institutions that distinguish the West. He (or she) might also consider replacing DEI or admissions based strictly on test scores with "affirmative action for all" (AAA), the idea being to admit student bodies that are fully representative of the ethnic, racial, and geographic diversity of America. That would pass Supreme Court review.
This might not, in fact would not, be suitable for STEM, which argues for institutional separation between the liberal arts and the hard sciences.
Please stop the hatred. Enough already.