{"id":1508257,"date":"2022-06-08T17:49:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T21:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508257"},"modified":"2022-06-08T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T21:49:22","slug":"harvards-president-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvards-president-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard\u2019s President To Step Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvards-president-to-step-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508257&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/harvard\">Harvard<\/a> University President Lawrence Bacow announced on Wednesday that he would step down from the helm of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ivy-league\">prestigious school<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is never a good time to leave a job like this one, but now seems right to me,\u201d Bacow said in a message to the school community, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/harvard-president-lawrence-s-bacow-stepping-down-next-june-after-five-years-11654715428\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. \u201cThrough our collective efforts, we have found our way through the pandemic. We have worked together to sustain Harvard through change and through storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old academic expressed a desire to spend more time with his children and grandchildren. Before serving as the 29th president of Harvard for the past five years, Bacow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/faculty\/lawrence-bacow\">held roles<\/a> in Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government and Graduate School of Education. He also served as chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and president of Tufts University.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s endowment grew from $39 billion in 2018 to $53 billion in 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Under Bacow\u2019s leadership, Harvard battled in court over a lawsuit contending that the Ivy League school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/just-in-supreme-court-will-hear-cases-challenging-race-based-affirmative-action\">discriminated against Asian-American students<\/a> in their admissions process. The Supreme Court took up the case earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow also led Harvard through COVID-19 and the political controversies that followed the death of George Floyd. In most instances, Bacow reacted by nodding to the progressive Left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur nation has once again been shocked by the senseless killing of yet another black person \u2014 George Floyd \u2014 at the hands of those charged with protecting us,\u201d Bacow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/president\/news\/2020\/what-i-believe\/\">said<\/a> in May 2020. \u201cCities are erupting. Our nation is deeply divided. Leaders who should be bringing us together seem incapable of doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow also launched an initiative to examine the school\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-releases-slavery-report-findings-pledges-100-million-to-right-past-wrongs\">history with slavery<\/a> in 2019. A report revealed last month that between the school\u2019s founding in 1636 and the abolition of Massachusetts slavery in 1783, Harvard affiliates held at least 70 slaves. As a result, Harvard pledged $100 million to right past wrongs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is that slavery played a significant part in our institutional history,\u201d Bacow announced. \u201cThe truth is that the legacy of slavery continues to influence the world in the form of disparities in education, health, wealth, income, social mobility, and almost any other metric we might use to measure equality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, Harvard joined other postsecondary institutions in rolling back its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-wont-require-standardized-tests-through-2026\">standardized testing requirements<\/a>. High schoolers vying for a spot in the undergraduate class of 2027, 2028, 2029, or 2030 will no longer need to submit scores for the SAT or ACT.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of President Joe Biden\u2019s victory, Harvard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-rep-elise-stefanik-responds-after-harvard-cuts-her-from-politics-advisory-board\">removed<\/a> Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) \u2014 a Harvard alumna \u2014 from her role on the advisory board of the school\u2019s Institute of Politics over her claims about election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy request was not about political parties, political ideology, or her choice of candidate for president,\u201d Dean of the Faculty of the Kennedy School Doug Elmendorf explained in a statement. \u201cRather, in my assessment, Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November\u2019s presidential election that have no basis in evidence, and she has made public statements about court actions related to the election that are incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my conversation with Elise, she declined to step aside, and I told her that I would therefore remove her from the IOP\u2019s Senior Advisory Committee at this time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow announced on Wednesday that he would step down from the helm of the prestigious school next year. \u201cThere is never a good time to leave a job like this one, but now seems right to me,\u201d Bacow said in a message to the school community, per The Wall Street Journal. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1509044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}