Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative

Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner
Harvard Crimson 

Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two people familiar with the initiative.

The campaign, driven by Harvard’s top brass, aims to raise several hundred million dollars to support a new cohort of professors. If successful, the funding could bring dozens of faculty members to campus and drastically shift Harvard’s academic makeup.

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