Excruciating moment Harvard president is confronted with evidence of overwhelming liberal bias among professors

The President of Harvard University was left visibly uncomfortable after being confronted with the vast number of his staff who are liberal.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s editor in chief Emma Tucker, Alan Garber was asked about findings that said the faculty at the school was largely liberal.

Tucker cited a 2023 survey by The Harvard Crimson that found 77 percent of the faculty was liberal in her questioning. 

In response, he said: ‘One thing I can tell you is it’s nothing deliberate about our hiring policies or our tenure policies.

‘I think there are certain fields with people with more liberal or left-wing points of view feel more welcome. 

‘It may be that we don’t have as many conservatives as we should have. Part of it also may be that people don’t feel comfortable speaking out when they disagree.’

Garber also contended that the school has ‘had some real problems that we should address’.

He said that those included ‘perceived lack of ideological diversity’ among staff and students.  

It is the latest in an ongoing battle between the Trump Administration and the Ivy League school, with officials saying that they would now be cutting grants.

Trump has been critical of universities that allowed pro-Palestinian demonstrations to run amok.

Administration officials have also taken issue with what they consider to be lack of diversity – with too few conservatives on staff.

A Education Department official said on Monday that the school would not be eligible for new grants. 

Research grants would be the ones impacted – not federal student aid, which funnels through universities before providing students with financial relief.

Trump previously froze $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard and said he’s looking into stripping the Ivy of its tax-exempt status.

Harvard has refused to meet a series of demands issued by the administration, pushing back on the requests. Garber has previously said he won’t bend to the government.

The university sued last month to overturn the funding freeze, pushing back against the government’s ‘sweeping and intrusive demands.’ 

The demands include that Harvard make broad government leadership changes, change its admissions policy and audit its faculty and student body. 

Harvard´s lawsuit said the funding freeze violated the school´s First Amendment rights and the statutory provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. 

The school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has an endowment of $53 billion, the largest in the country. 

Across the university, federal money accounted for 10.5% of revenue in 2023, not counting financial aid such as Pell grants and student loans.

That accounts for more than half the $109 billion spent on research at universities, with most of the rest coming from college endowments, state and local governments and nonprofits. 

Others being pushed to make changes include Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University, all of who have had their funds cut. 

As the administration continues to wage its war against the school, Kristi Noem also said last month that the school would lost its ability to enroll foreign students should it fail to comply with the demands.

Noem also announced the termination of two DHS grants totaling over $2.7 million to Harvard.

The former governor of South Dakota wrote a letter to Harvard demanding records on what she called the ‘illegal and violent activities’ of Harvard’s foreign student visa holders by April 30.