What evidence do you have of political indoctrination or social activism?
Companies, large ones, settle all the time even if not at fault to avoid a lengthy trial which damages their reputation. It can have nothing to do with culpability.
3% of civil cases reach a verdict.
https://arizonabusinesslawyeraz.com/when-to-litigate-and-whe...
Settlements are also a known fixed cost controlled by the business instead of a jury. Considering how Republicans are attacking Harvard I would say the desire to get this out the public spotlight as fast as possible is important
“ Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will stop requiring a diversity, inclusion, and belonging statement as part of its faculty hiring process”
Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School described these statements as "ideological pledges of allegiance" that pressure candidates to conform to specific viewpoints, potentially discouraging those with differing perspectives
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Too,_Am_Harvard
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Harvard
[4] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/11/1/pro-palestine-l...
[5] https://www.jdjournal.com/2024/07/05/critics-blast-harvard-t...
[6] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/04/harvard-renames-dive...
[7] https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/28/harvard-university-neut...
For instance, computer science professor Harry Lewis observed that the course catalog contains over 100 classes referencing "social justice" and around 80 each mentioning "oppression" or "liberation,"
[8] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/18/harvar...
[9] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/8/lewis-reaping-wh...
Those are some examples but clearly they have failed to address anti semitism on their campus. Harvard also appears to be an enabler of social activism
The CS professor just running a word search is a poor experiment but this doesn't negate your point.
[1] The DEI intitive is social activism [2] True but not an official school policy but a professor
[3] Independent organization [4] Article on protests and mentions faculty support them [5-6] Accusations [7] True
These are good examples. What about indoctrination though and is it wrong for Harvard to be social activists?
In the case of the curriculum, it suggests an institutional preference for particular ideological narratives
Harvard selectively aligned with or tolerated specific activist ideologies while suppressing or distancing themselves from others
For DEI (which is just rebranded now honestly), it suggests that Harvard pushes only progressive policies and indoctrinated their students in this ideology.
They shouldn’t indoctrinate any students whatsoever
Are there?
>suggests that Harvard pushes only progressive policies
How does Harvard's DEI program suggest they ONLY push progressive policies?
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/ip031k/commen...
It can also create a circle where people who are more conservative are less likely to view universites favorably, and therefore attend less and in different departments, thus creating an even more overwhelming majority.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2017/07/10/sharp-partis...
This shows the difference in thinking between left and right on higher education. In general the longer you are at college, the more likely you are to be liberal. Is that 'indoctrination'? No, but I think it's a bit silly to not see a stray thumb on the scale”
That's nice
"Although acknowledging his experiment’s limitations – “word frequency is an imperfect measure”
The classes exist and he could have confirmed by attending them or checking course material. I was complaining about his lazy method
It doesn't matter I said you proved that point
https://www.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FINAL-Har...