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In light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers and heightened interest stemming from last year’s vigorously contested results and the possibility of a similar contest this year
Harvard Magazine is providing enhanced coverage. We asked each candidate presented by the HAA nominating committee and each member of the Harvard Forward slate seeking a place on the ballot by petition to answer these questions:
• What are the most important challenges facing the University and what are its most significant opportunities?
• What is the Board of Overseers’ role in Harvard’s response to those challenges and in its efforts to realize those opportunities?
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South Dakota Board of Regents lone free speech grievance: Hobo Days
The South Dakota Board of Regents 2020 Intellectual Diversity report found only a lone complaint, which was a request for the South Dakota State University to change its homecoming celebration s name from Hobo Days to a Jackrabbit celebration. This was the second year the report was presented to the Legislature, following a 2019 state law requiring colleges to track free speech impediments, leading to a discussion of the report s usefulness. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
PIERRE, S.D. An annual report documenting alleged violations of free speech on public university campuses across South Dakota turned up only a single complaint, a grievance over Hobo Days as the name of South Dakota State University s homecoming celebration, according to the state s Board of Regents.
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With the announcement today of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee’s candidates for the Board of Overseers, a second consecutive, competitive campaign for election to the governing board appears to be shaping up. Harvard Forward (HF) last year succeeded in qualifying five candidates for the ballot by securing signatures on nominating petitions, and three were elected. Their success was significant and set in motion developments that will shape this spring’s voting (which begins April 1):
• The HF candidates advocated an issues-focused platform of divestment from fossil-fuel investments, other changes in endowment investment policy, and changes in governance a view of the Overseers’ role at odds with the University’s model of governance, which vests fiduciary responsibilities in the Corporation, and assigns academic oversight and general advisory responsibilities to the Board of Overseers.