Harvard University faculty members overwhelmingly voted Monday to reinstate 13 fourth-year students who had been denied permission to graduate by the Harvard University Board of Trustees for their actions in a pro-Palestinian “camp.”
of Harvard Crimson report:
Members of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted overwhelmingly to re-add 13 students to the list of degrees recommended for award in May after students first earn their degrees. Barred from graduating He started participating in the pro-Palestinian camp.
The vote, taken Monday afternoon at the FAS Academic Conference, was a stunning rebuke to Harvard’s Board of Trustees. Decision to suspend five students At least 20 students will be placed on probation for violating university policy during this period. 20 days camping at Harvard Yard.
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The matter will now be referred to Harvard’s Board of Trustees, namely Harvard University and the Board of Overseers. According to the university’s administrative regulations, degrees are awarded after faculty approval and “by vote of the corporation with the consent of the supervisor.”
The vote begins a battle between teachers and the powerful “Advertising Committee.”
The “encampment” disrupted campus life for nearly three weeks, with protests occurring midway through the final exam period. Jewish students said they felt unsafe, especially given the use of anti-Semitic and militant slogans.
Harvard University effectively granted many of the activists’ demands, including a conference to discuss divestment from Israel.
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