The House Committee on Education & the Workforce requested documents to assess Harvard University's response to antisemitism on campus.
In a letter dated Tuesday, Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., requested a wide range of documentation going as far back as 2013 to help assess Harvard's policies and procedures in dealing with campus harassment of Jewish students and faculty.
The Committee gave Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker and Interim President Dr. Alan Garber two weeks to respond to the request. The letter detailed concerns that antisemitism is not a new phenomenon at Harvard.
The documents requested include all reports of antisemitic incidents, disciplinary procedures, any legal or financial settlements, DEI Office budgets, foreign donations, and Jewish enrollments, among others.
"There is evidence antisemitism has been pervasive at Harvard since well before the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack. A November 2022 report by the AMCH Initiative, a nonprofit that documents antisemitism on college campuses, found Harvard had the highest rate of threats based on Jewish identity of the 109 campuses they surveyed," Foxx said in her letter.
Foxx added: "Harvard's Jewish undergraduate population has fallen dramatically from approximately 1,675 students to 700 in 2023, according to estimates from Hillel International. This constitutes a decrease from 25 percent of the undergraduate body to only 9.8 percent."
Harvard has been embroiled in controversy after former President Claudine Gay's testimony before Congress where she gave a muted response in how to deal with the calls of genocide for Jewish people after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel.
Gay, who had been accused of plagiarism by multiple scholars in her academic work, resigned Jan. 2 after mounting pressure from donors and alumni.
In her resignation letter, Gay declined to refute the charges against her and cited "racial animus" as the reason for her forced departure. Gay remains on Harvard's payroll and is still receiving an annual salary of nearly $900,000.
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