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...professor took a blind poll of all the students’ political affiliations. Of the 40 students polled, I was the only conservative Republican. The vast majority of the class was liberal, including the professor—he had served in the Clinton administration. In my short time at Harvard I have taken courses at the law, business, government, and education schools, and every class has had a similar make...
...including myself, were “students of color.” President Faust would have been overcome with euphoria to walk into our lecture and observe the “diversity.” As I sat alone in a classroom of peers, I realized that diversity at Harvard is an intellectual joke...
President Faust’s letter references Harvard’s 2005 task force that conducted two comprehensive surveys of diversity. The conclusions of that research focused exclusively on race and gender. Harvard spent $50 million on this task force. However, not a dime has ever been authorized to study Harvard’s disparate inequity in political ideology...
...know I am not the first conservative to bemoan the liberal bias of the Ivy League. It is also true that more liberals than conservatives choose careers in academia. Nevertheless, Harvard is cheating their liberal students by having an overwhelmingly liberal faculty, because neither must vehemently research and defend their views during class debates. Recently I had a face-to-face meeting with Dr. Lisa Coleman, our new Chief Diversity Officer, and I was very encouraged by her willingness to listen and consider these points. I implore her and President Faust to include “political and social ideology?...
...yearn for the day when our school becomes a beacon to the world by proclaiming to students that their minds are more important than their skin or sex. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Unfortunately, when it comes to diversity of thought, Harvard University is dull indeed...