Harvard President-Elect Claudine Gay assured future students of Harvard that its commitment to the “educational benefits of diversity” are unchanged.
Gay issued a statement Thursday in response to the Supreme Court overturning Affirmative Action. The court ruled 6-2 Friday in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had to recuse herself due to her participation on Harvard’s board.
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“The Supreme Court’s decision on college and university admissions will change how we pursue the educational benefits of diversity – but our commitment to that work remains steadfast. It is essential to who we are and the mission we are here to advance,” Gay said in a YouTube video. “We will comply with the Court’s decision; but it does not change our values. We continue to believe—deeply—that a thriving, diverse intellectual community is essential to academic excellence and critical to shaping the next generation of leaders.”
Gay went on to say that “our students have the chance to put their ideas into conversation with other points of view, experiences, and perspectives.”
Harvard alumnus Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) would disagree.
“Here’s the thing what I’ve found in some of these elite institutions: yeah, they may generate diversity in skin color but they tend to promote uniformity of thought,” DeSantis said in an interview with the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito.
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Harvard’s class of 2026 is made up of 15.2% African American, 27.9% Asian American, 12.6% Hispanic or Latino, 2.9% Native American, and 0.8% Native Hawaiian per its website.
In April of this year, over 61,000 students applied at the Ivy League school, with just under 2,000 getting accepted.
