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Harvard’s $10 Million Viewpoint Diversity Fix Won’t Work

Harvard’s $10 Million Viewpoint Diversity Fix Won’t Work

David Randall
Minding the Campus 

The Harvard Crimson reports that “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.’” If so, it’s an initiative that would improve Harvard. But it sure is a big-budget one.

But the point of these rumored endowed professorships at Harvard is to promote “viewpoint diversity,” and the ecosystem for the professors to get hired does not fit the Harvard endowment model. Who will Harvard hire from?

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