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A new peer-reviewed study appears to confirm what critics of political correctness have long suspected: that publicly apologizing for controversial statements or opinions doesn’t work, and may, in fact, be counterproductive. According to the study, liberals and women are more likely to desire punishment for a controversial person if they issued a public apology.

Harvard announced this week that it will implement new measures to protect against admissions fraud that will ensure recruited athletes are actually capable of playing their sport at the collegiate level.

Harvard campus activists demanded an apology from the student newspaper for the basic journalistic practice of seeking out a comment from ICE for a story concerning a campus protest against the agency.

NBC News is on the defense ahead of the release on Tuesday of Rowan Farrow’s book that includes claims of company-wide sex abuse.

Harvard student Kelley Babphavong condemned her university’s discriminatory admissions procedure in an appearance on Fox & Friends this week.

A United States District Court Judge ruled this week that Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian-Americans in its admission process. Here are some of the key takeaways from the decision.

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian Americans in its admissions process.

A new study suggests that 43 percent of white Harvard students are either athletes, legacy students, relatives of major donors, or children of faculty and staff.

The Clarion Project has issued an analysis showing how billions of foreign dollars have been infused into American colleges and universities.

Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow said that the university “regrets” accepting donations from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A Harvard higher education expert predicts that 25 percent of American colleges will shut their doors within the next two decades based on rising costs and falling admissions.

Harvard University President Larry Bacow published a “welcome message” this week to the Harvard community in which he condemned immigration policies under President Donald Trump.

The founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, is defending one of its directors for accepting a donation from Jeffrey Epstein, adding that he told the director he should accept the money — despite knowing of Epstein’s previous underage prostitution conviction — because he thought Epstein “repented.”

As presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren travels the country promoting her “free college” plan, her husband earns $400,000 annually as a professor at Harvard University. According to one expert, “high and rising” salaries for administrators and professors is a leading cause of ballooning college tuition.

Recently published financial figures revealed that Harvard University has more money than half of the world’s countries. Harvard’s $38.3 billion endowment puts it ahead of 195 countries in terms of total wealth.

Harvard Law School recently launched a new clinic in which students will be able to defend the rights of animals.

A Harvard project involving efforts to “equip a tree with a voice” about climate change was funded with taxpayer dollars from the National Science Foundation.

Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe tweeted on Sunday that “white supremacists oppose abortion” because they fear it will “reduce the number of white infants” and eventually contribute to “non-white replacement.” The professor ignores the disproportionate effect of abortion on black Americans and the fact that actual white supremacists like Richard Spencer endorse abortion.

As college GPA’s have risen, the total amount of study hours has declined. This trend begs the question; is college getting easier?

“I’m not scared of this president,” Buttigieg told CNN’s Chris Cuomo in an interview.

Harvard Law School Professor Bruce Hay was suspended by the institution as part of a Title IX investigation after it received accusations of sexual misconduct from a woman Hay claims committed fraud.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas now provides eight segregated residential accommodations for minority, female, and LGBT students.

Psychologists at Harvard University say they have found substantial evidence that “trigger warnings” do not actually help trauma survivors, and in fact, may actually be harmful to individuals. “There is no evidence-based reason to use them,” said the researchers.

Harvard University has continuously refused to return a $6.5 million donation made by billionaire and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein over the past two decades.

Harvard University, which recently rescinded an offer of acceptance from Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv over his use of racial slurs in high school, once accepted a member of the Black Panthers convicted of murder.

A professor at Harvard University has created an app to measure class participation by race and gender in an effort to instill equity regarding classroom engagement on the basis of demographics. The professor decided to develop the app after realizing, to his dismay, that female students participate far less than male students in his classroom.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is getting help with her White House bid from her academic coherts and a new leftwing political campaign organization.

Jeffrey S. Flier, the former Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Medical School, argued in an op-ed this week that Harvard is making a mistake by removing portraits of influential white doctors from campus for the sake of “diversity.”

Former Harvard Law School Professor Ronald S. Sullivan released a statement last week addressing his termination from the university, which came after he represented Harvey Weinstein. According to Sullivan, “What is at stake are the values that underwrite the best traditions of higher education, the very same traditions that have sustained Harvard for nearly 400 years.”

Harvard University has rescinded its offer of admission to Parkland student Kyle Kashuv in response to a series of leaked online conversations in which Kashuv used racial slurs.

Some Asian-Americans are fearful that they recently announced “adversity score” will harm their chance of admission to college.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, wrote a regular column for the Harvard Crimson during his years as a student that reveal an early attachment to the dogmas of the Democratic Party and some of its more radical themes.

Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe tweeted on Monday that while he doesn’t believe President Donald Trump is “becoming” Adolf Hitler, he does believe that the two men have relevant “physical and behavioral resemblances.”

The Harvard Lampoon, a venerated humor publication whose graduates often become top comedy writers in Hollywood, has published a cartoon featuring Holocaust victim Anne Frank photoshopped wearing a bikini.

Harvard Law School alumnus Kaveh Sharooz condemned Harvard for firing Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. for representing Harvard Weinstein in an op-ed for Quillette.

A special graduation ceremony was hosted at Harvard University on Wednesday for illegal immigrants titled “UndocuGraduation.” The ceremony, a first of its kind at Harvard, included a speech by a professor arrested while protesting President Donald Trump.