Harvard's highest governing body has spurned a recommendation from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and will decline to confer degrees Thursday to 13 undergraduate seniors facing discipline for taking part in the campus protest over the war in Gaza.
and will decline to confer degrees Thursday to 13 undergraduate seniors facing discipline for taking part in the campus protest over the war in Gaza, according to
The decision comes on the eve of main commencement exercises for Harvard, raising immediate questions about the ceremony and longer-term concerns about the campus environment moving forward. "I think this is a damning error on the part of the Corporation," she said Wednesday."A show of complete disregard for the clearly expressed and legislated will of the faculty and it is going to generate an immense crisis in governance at this university going forward."
It added that each of the 13 suspended seniors had been found by the Administrative Board to"have violated the University's policies by their conduct during their participation in the recent encampment in Harvard Yard" and that Monday's vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences"did not ...
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