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NextImg:The Corner: Harvard’s Halo Is Now Badly Tarnished

It has been a bad couple of years for Harvard. The Supreme Court ruled that its racial preferences in student admissions was illegal. Then came the furor over the campus protests favoring Hamas and targeting Jewish students, followed by the embarrassing, equivocating response by then-president Claudine Gay when asked if the university thought that was all right. And after that, it turned out that Gay had committed plagiarism in several of her very few published writings. So she had to resign.

Now that Donald Trump is president and the federal government is scrutinizing our higher ed system with special attention to Harvard, the school’s PR team is working overtime.

In today’s Martin Center article, Professor Stanley Ridgley surveys this new reality for Harvard.

He writes:

The flurry of today’s events is difficult to make sense of, but much of the confusion is contrived. Through it all, one Great Fact stands out. Harvard is guilty. And it’s not even a close call. You can see it for yourself in the Notice of Violation sent to Harvard on June 30. All that remains is sentencing. The only play left to Harvard is to determine how much it can yield to the government to halt its plummeting brand equity while retaining a bit of face . . . as well as the $3 billion in funding.

To some, especially legacy media, Harvard is being unfairly attacked. Ridgley disagrees: “Yet the university has shattered that image in a series of own goals that betray an administration that is tone-deaf and aloof. The pristine image has been replaced by one that is closer to reality: of a clique of elitists with upturned noses, jaunty top hats, fine wines, dark wood, and effete concerns as unconnected with America’s mundane routines as any multi-billion-dollar nonprofit could be.”

Will Harvard’s new president be able to turn things around? Ridgley thinks that unlikely. The zealots who are in charge aren’t going to let go of their “social justice” agenda.