governance bloat, duplication, or decentralization that interfere with the possibility of the
reforms indicated in this letter.
Merit-Based Hiring Reform. By August 2025, the University must adopt and implement
merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation, and related practices among
faculty, staff, and leadership. Such adoption and implementation must be durable and
demonstrated through structural and personnel changes. All existing and prospective faculty
shall be reviewed for plagiarism and Harvard’s plagiarism policy consistently enforced. All
hiring and related data shall be shared with the federal government and subjected to a
comprehensive audit by the federal government during the period in which reforms are
being implemented, which shall be at least until the end of 2028.
Merit-Based Admissions Reform. By August 2025, the University must adopt and
implement merit-based admissions policies and cease all preferences based on race, color,
national origin, or proxies thereof, throughout its undergraduate program, each graduate
program individually, each of its professional schools, and other programs. Such adoption
and implementation must be durable and demonstrated through structural and personnel
changes. All admissions data shall be shared with the federal government and subjected to a
comprehensive audit by the federal government—and non-individualized, statistical
information regarding admissions shall be made available to the public, including
information about rejected and admitted students broken down by race, color, national
origin, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests-during the period in
which reforms are being implemented, which shall be at least until the end of 2028. During
this same period, the dean of admissions for each program or school must sign a public
statement after each admissions cycle certifying that these rules have been upheld.
International Admissions Reform. By August 2025, the University must reform its
recruitment, screening, and admissions of international students to prevent admitting
students hostile to the American values and institutions inscribed in the U.S. Constitution
and Declaration of Independence, including students supportive of terrorism or
anti-Semitism. Harvard will immediately report to federal authorities, including the
Department of Homeland Security and State Department, any foreign student, including
those on visas and with green cards, who commits a conduct violation. As above, these
reforms must be durable and demonstrated through structural and personnel changes;
comprehensive throughout all of Harvard’s programs; and, during the reform period, shared
with the federal government for audit, shared on a non-individualized basis with the public,
and certified by deans of admissions.
• Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring. By August 2025, the University shall
commission an external party, which shall satisfy the federal government as to its
competence and good faith, to audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for
viewpoint diversity, such that each department, field, or teaching unit must be individually
viewpoint diverse. This audit shall begin no later than the summer of 2025 and shall proceed
on a department-by-department, field-by-field, or teaching-unit-by-teaching-unit basis as
appropriate. The report of the external party shall be submitted to University leadership and