Harvard University plans to identify and support the descendants of enslaved people who labored at the Ivy League campus.
is vowing to spend $100 million to study and atone for its extensive ties with slavery, the school’s president announced Tuesday, with plans to identify and support the descendants of enslaved people who labored at the Ivy League campus.
President Bacow established a new Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery to dig deeper into the university’s role.The report says the university “should make a significant monetary commitment, and it should invest in remedies of equal or greater breadth than other universities.” Bacow said Harvard will attempt to redress its wrongs through “teaching, research and service.” He is creating a committee to implement the report’s suggestions.
Even after slavery was abolished, the report says, prominent scholars continued to promote concepts that fueled racist ideas. The 130-page report included a series of recommendations that Bacow endorsed. The $100 million will be used to carry out the work, with some funding to be made available now and more to be held in an endowment. The university itself has an endowment of more than $50 billion, the largest in the nation.
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