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Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) is at the center of another financial crisis — this time on the board of now-defunct Signature Bank, which was closed by New York State and taken over by federal authorities on Sunday.

Harvard University has quietly ended its “misinformation” research program, giving the boot to director Dr. Joan Donovan, who cast doubt on the Hunter Biden “Laptop from Hell” story.

More than 100 students at Harvard University staged a walkout from professor John Comaroff’s class after he was accused of forcibly kissing and groping three graduate students in a lawsuit.

Harvard Kennedy School on Thursday reversed its decision to deny a fellowship to the former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW), and obsessive anti-Israel critic, Kenneth Roth.

Harvard University had the most antisemitic incidents on college campuses during the 2021-2022 academic year, according to a new report.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a pair of cases that could overturn the use of racial preferences in college admissions, focusing on challenges to affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.

Far-left former CNN host Brian Stelter is joining the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy as a fellow this fall. The school referred to Stelter — who admitted to crying in his bed during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic — as an “expert on the state of journalism.”

Harvard found that only 8% wanted to start an insurrection, contrary to claims by the January 6 Committee; many believed they were defending democracy, not overthrowing it.

A Harvard graduate went viral on social media for walking out of United States Attorney General Merrick Garland’s commencement speech on Sunday. Emma Heussner called walking out on Garland an “easy decision.”

A report issued by a team of researchers from institutions including Harvard University found that economic and racial learning gaps in states such as Texas and Florida did not widen due to schools largely maintaining in-person classes during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Harvard Professor Thomas Kane explains: “Where schools remained in-person, gaps did not widen. Where schools shifted to remote learning, gaps widened sharply. Shifting to remote instruction was like turning a switch on a critical piece of our social infrastructure that we had taken for granted.”

Former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers wrote Tuesday that antisemitism had arrived at his former campus, in the form of the anti-Israel “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement at the Harvard Crimson‘s support for it. As Breitbart News reported last week, the

Once students are taught to hate America, it is a short leap for them to hate Israel, and Jews, because in both cases they learn repudiate the idea that people can liberate themselves from oppression and earn success.

The editorial board of the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at the nation’s oldest university, called for a boycott of Israel for alleged “crimes against humanity,” and demanded a “free Palestine,” meaning the destruction of the State of Israel.

Democrats only understand the danger of their own totalitarian ideas, like a “disinformation” agency, when the partisan shoe is on the other foot.

An internal investigation into the history of slavery associated with Harvard University reported Tuesday that several people associated with the institution owned a total of 70 slaves, and that Harvard benefited from money donated by slave owners.

Harvard University is committing $100 million to study its ties to slavery and create a “Legacy of Slavery Fund” to explore reparations for the descendants of slaves associated with the Ivy League institution.

Devin Buckley, a feminist who was to speak at Harvard, was blocked because she is against biological men competing against women.

The East Turkistan Government in Exile, which represents the majority Uyghur population of the region occupied by China, condemned Harvard University on Thursday for hosting a Chinese official who has openly called China’s genocide of the Uyghur people a “lie.”

Senior diplomats of the Chinese communist regime recently spoke at a Harvard conference, where they urged the audience of woke elites to not pay attention to “narrow-minded” Americans and said that U.S. lawmakers should focus on improving China-U.S. relations.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Wednesday that she would recuse herself from an upcoming case alleging racial discrimination against Harvard University over affirmative action if she were to be confirmed by the Senate.

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is closing a police substation following student and faculty complaints claiming that the mere presence of police officers is a “violent, visual intimidation tactic,” and “implies that we’re being watched.”

Harvard professor Laurence Tribe advised Harvard to be more “subtle” in race-based admissions if affirmative action fails at the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court will decide whether colleges can use racial preferences when deciding which students to admit for both public and private schools, reconsidering a half-century of legal precedent in a pair of cases the justices will hear this fall.

U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, a Harvard law professor prior to joining the Biden administration, has been granted a waiver to the Biden Ethics Pledge allowing her to work on a lawsuit brought against her former employer by Asian American students.

Former Harvard professor Charles Lieber was found guilty of lying about his ties to China, and was convicted on six counts related to payments from the communist country. Lieber reportedly told federal agents that: “Money is a big temptation, that’s one of the things that China uses to seduce people.”

The Biden administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to abandon a Trump-era legal challenge alleging that Harvard College’s admission policies discriminate against Asian-American applicants.

Two Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials reportedly received an education through Harvard University fellowships before overseeing what U.S. State Department labeled a genocide of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.

Harvard Business School is moving all first-year and some second-year MBA students to online learning amid a “steady rise” in breakthrough cases of the Chinese coronavirus, despite a high vaccination rate and frequent testing on campus, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Harvard University appears to be distancing itself from an upcoming music program exclusively for “BIPOC” students, as the program’s website — which initially said the course would be held on Harvard’s campus — has been scrubbed of any mention of it taking place at the Ivy League institution.

Philosopher and prominent civil rights activist Cornel West announced Monday that he is resigning from Harvard University’s Divinity School, which he says is in a state of “decline and decay,” adding that he had been working in “the shadow of Jim Crow,” which “was cast in its new glittering form expressed in the language of superficial diversity.”

A professor at the University of Michigan-Flint says that Harvard University hosting a music program open to “all BIPOC students” is a Title VI violation.

A high school graduated headed to Harvard University is asking for her $40,000 college scholarship to be donated to another student attending a community college that the Harvard-bound student’s mother attended in her late 30’s. The student credited her Christian faith and her mother for the decision to help classmates achieve their education goals.

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a challenge to Harvard University’s racial preferences during college admissions, in a case with profound implications for the woke culture in academia and even corporate America.

GOP-controlled state legislatures drafting and passing election integrity laws are a threat to American democracy, academics claim.

More than 70 Harvard faculty members have signed a letter decrying the U.S. and Israel’s “criminalization” of the Palestinians’ “right to resist,” and called on the Biden administration to end support for “Israel’s apartheid regime, condemn Israeli state aggression, and affirm our support for the Palestinian liberation struggle.”

Over 246 years ago, an invisible enemy descended on the town of Marblehead, Massachusetts. A virus divided the town politically and had a profound impact on the Revolutionary War that followed shortly after.