Harvard Defies Faculty Vote to Block 13 Students From Graduating

[MichMan]

(Headline is poorly written)

(Bloomberg) -- Harvard University’s governing board said it’s declining to award degrees to 13 students who violated the university’s policies by participating in a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus.

The move came after 115 faculty members showed up to a meeting on Monday and voted to allow the students to graduate, even after they’d been disciplined by an administrative board, according to the Harvard Crimson. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has about 888 voting members.

The ruling may exacerbate divisions between the Harvard Corp., led by former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, and some faculty and students. The students were found to have “violated the university’s policies by their conduct during their participation in the recent encampment in Harvard Yard,” the corporation said in a statement Wednesday.

[link:https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/harvard-defies-faculty-vote-to-block-13-students-from-graduating/ar-BB1mSgsT?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=298737c43c2846469974cd82937be8ab&ei=19|

[enough]

1. You're right, the headline seems to say the exact opposite of what happened.

[malaise]

2. They will pay for this

Take that to the bank - they cannot violate their own statutes

[LuvLoogie]

3. That's pretty shitty.

They must have mess up the grass and hurt some feelings.

[Prendy]

4. Small percentage of faculty

The objecting faculty represent just a little over 6% of the 2,400 Harvard faculty members. So, couldn’t the headline of this article more correctly be that Harvard stays consistent with the vast majority of the faculty who did not object to the disciplining of these students?

[Mike Nelson]

5. Hmmm...

.... it doesn't say what the 13 students did, exactly. Did they break into a building? Damage property? Assault anyone? Peacefully demonstrating for suffering Palestinians should not lose a diploma... The story should explain... I think there were many more than 13 students...

[MichMan]

8. Violations of current policies

Each of these students has been found by the College’s Administrative Board—the body established by the FAS faculty to investigate and adjudicate disciplinary matters—to have violated the University’s policies by their conduct during their participation in the recent encampment in Harvard Yard.

[link:https://www.harvard.edu/blog/2024/05/22/conferral-of-degrees/|

[hlthe2b]

6. Let the lawsuits fly.... I cannot imagine how they think this is legally defensible.

[Cha]

7. TY dalton.