The university at large has sold out our students. But there are hundreds of faculty on this campus dedicated to the right of our students to learn, debate, protest, research, and report without fear.
The question of who gets a say is not a sideshow. It is Harvard’s defining issue. A university that silences students and sidelines faculty becomes reactive, brittle, and beholden. A university that distributes power, though, becomes resilient.
Austerity policy-making over the past 50 years has been racialized, withering services in public agencies ranging from K-12 schooling to hospitals to higher education. Matters of race must be made more visible, placed at the center of policy-making.
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