June 2025

Chronicle of Higher Education Appearance

In Public, Harvard Is Fighting Trump. Quietly, It’s Dismantling a Program the White House Doesn’t Like.

In the spring of 2024, [Israeli scholar Atalia] Omer was told her contract with Harvard would not be renewed. In January of 2025, Diane L. Moore, then the associate dean of the Religion and Public Life program, was removed from the deanship, months ahead of her planned retirement in July. The next day, Hussein Rashid, Religion and Public Life’s assistant dean, announced he was resigning in a letter that accused Harvard of institutional anti-Muslim bias.