Harvard Board Bars 13 Pro-Palestine Student Protesters from Graduating, Overruling Faculty

Published on May 23, 2024

The Harvard University administration is remaining steadfast in its decision to sanction a group of 13 students who participated in pro-Palestine protests and stop them from receiving their degrees and graduating from the facility. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) had previously pressured the Harvard Corporation to allow the students to graduate, but their effort was rejected on May 22 in what has been described as an unprecedented move. “Because the students included as the result of Monday’s amendment are not in good standing, we cannot responsibly vote to award them degrees at this time,” according to a statement by the Harvard Corporation....