Harvard leaders no longer commenting on issues unrelated to ‘core function’

[zincwarrior]

Harvard announced it is changing its commentary approach. Going forward, the university, deans, etc. will only discuss issues related to its "core function." Sounds like they have been burned over the Palestine thing.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4689633-harvard-comment-policy-issues-unrelated-core-function/

Harvard leaders no longer commenting on issues unrelated to ‘core function’​

A view of Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University on July 8, 2020, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Harvard will no longer be commenting on issues unrelated to the “core function” of its institution, the university announced Tuesday, a decision made after months of turmoil over the Israel-Hamas war.
The recommendation that the school not comment on controversial public issues came from a report led by the “Institutional Voice Working Group” the school established in April.

The report “reasons that when the University ‘speaks officially on matters outside its institutional area of expertise,’ such statements risk compromising the ‘integrity and credibility’ of our academic mission and may undermine open inquiry and academic freedom by making ‘it more difficult for some members of the community to express their views when they differ from the university’s official position,’” the school said in its statement announcing the report and new policy.

“We have accepted the faculty Working Group’s report and recommendations, which also have been endorsed by the Harvard Corporation,” the statement reads.
The new policy will affect university administrators, deans of schools and department chairs.
It comes after the university has gone through multiple controversies this year related to the Israel-Hamas war, from the resignation of its former president to the pro-Palestinian encampment.
“There will be close cases where reasonable people disagree about whether a given issue is or is not directly related to the core function of the university,” the report said. “The university’s policy in those situations should be to err on the side of avoiding official statements.”
This tactic aligns with the decades-old debates of “institutional neutrality” in academia. Institutional neutrality states that universities should not take public stances on controversial issues of today as not to influence open debate on their campuses.

 

[Phys251]

Harvard announced it is changing its commentary approach. Going forward, the university, deans, etc. will only discuss issues related to its "core function." Sounds like they have been burned over the Palestine thing.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4689633-harvard-comment-policy-issues-unrelated-core-function/

Good. The "antisemitism" charges against them are attacks on free speech from the Far Right.

Ironic and hypocritical, considering it is the Far Right that has whined about a supposed lack of free speech on college campuses. Well here it is, and their weak asses cannot handle it.

 

[noonereal]

Harvard announced it is changing its commentary approach. Going forward, the university, deans, etc. will only discuss issues related to its "core function." Sounds like they have been burned over the Palestine thing.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4689633-harvard-comment-policy-issues-unrelated-core-function/

Yep, they learned the hard way that Congress is a play box that one must avoid or become sullied.

 

[Nomad4Ever]

Probably for the best, lol.

 

[Bodi]

The next step would be for the university to ban anti-Semitic protests... the schools are to teach kids... not indoctrinate them.

 

[Roadvirus]

Good. The "antisemitism" charges against them are attacks on free speech from the Far Right.

Someone with a sign that says "Al-Qassam's next targets" and pointing it at a group of Jews is NOT Free Speech. That's hate speech bordering on advocating murder/terrorism.

 

[Phys251]

Someone with a sign that says "Al-Qassam's next targets" and pointing it at a group of Jews is NOT Free Speech. That's hate speech bordering on advocating murder/terrorism.

When coming from the Far Right, that's the kind of speech that they endorse. Remember how Milo Yiannopoulos would dox trans students? The Far Right defended that shit.

 

[Mr Person]

Good. The "antisemitism" charges against them are attacks on free speech from the Far Right.

Ironic and hypocritical, considering it is the Far Right that has whined about a supposed lack of free speech on college campuses. Well here it is, and their weak asses cannot handle it.

The charge that the university itself is anti-semitic, yes. But there has been an increase in anti-semitic incidents and speech in many universities.

Remember, if you stand against ism, you shouldn't be any quicker to tell a Jewish student that they're hallucinating perceived anti-semitism than you are to say it to a black person re: racism.

Someone with a sign that says "Al-Qassam's next targets" and pointing it at a group of Jews is NOT Free Speech. That's hate speech bordering on advocating murder/terrorism.

When coming from the Far Right, that's the kind of speech that they endorse. Remember how Milo Yiannopoulos would dox trans students? The Far Right defended that shit.

Hold on. What?

Whether or not what Roadvirus described is not a valid exercise of free speech has nothing to do with what similar things 'the far right' has done or whether it's 'the far right' that lobs the accusation. It has entirely to do whether it crosses the line into the narrow realm of speech that is not protected by the 1st on its own merits.

 

[Revelation]

The next step would be for the university to ban anti-Semitic protests...

the schools are to teach kids... not indoctrinate them.

that should have happened, but the horse is out of the barn on this one. it was tooo convenient for the Puppet Masters to 'educate' the younger thinkers.

eventually this will fail anyway as we move into the end times, watch what happens in Academia Land