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Harvard College turned over one other trove of paperwork about campus antisemitism to Congress on Monday night in response to an unprecedented subpoena from the Home Training and Workforce Committee.
Harvard was facing a 5 pm ET Monday deadline to answer the subpoena, the primary issued because the Home Training Committee was founded in March 1867.
It’s not clear whether or not the most recent spherical of paperwork will fulfill Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican chairwoman of the committee who has accused Harvard of “obstructing” her investigation into campus antisemitism.
“Harvard has produced paperwork in response to the Committee’s subpoena,” Nick Barley, a spokesperson for the Home Training Committee, advised CNN on Monday night. “The Committee is at the moment reviewing these paperwork.”
If Harvard had not responded, the committee would have needed to consider further steps to enforce its subpoena.
Harvard confirmed to CNN it submitted extra paperwork to Congress on Monday.
College spokesperson Jason Newton stated Harvard continues to reply “in good religion” to the committee’s inquiry, including that it has now offered practically 4,900 pages of knowledge via 11 rounds of doc submissions since January.
That response, in response to Newton, consists of “personal info and inner communications” that the committee has requested.
“Harvard denounced antisemitism on our campus and have made clear that the College will proceed to take actions to fight antisemitism in any kind,” Newton stated. “This consists of ongoing efforts to interact with and study from college students, college and workers to establish the causes of antisemitic behaviors and handle them after they happen on our campus.”
Harvard beforehand indicated it might cooperate with the investigation, although the college didn’t say whether or not it might attempt to combat the subpoenas in court docket. Harvard stated its cooperation would come with “defending the reputable privateness, security and safety considerations of our neighborhood.”
Three totally different Harvard officers had been subpoenaed on February 16: Alan Garber, Harvard’s interim president; Penny Pritzker, the billionaire chief of the Harvard Company, the college’s governing board; and N.P. Narvekar, the CEO of the Harvard Administration Firm.
The subpoena instructed Harvard to provide paperwork in 11 key areas that Foxx stated would make clear what steps the college is taking and beforehand took to maintain Jewish college students protected.
These requested paperwork embody reviews of antisemitic acts since early 2021, communications associated to disciplinary motion involving antisemitism, all paperwork and communications involving high Harvard officers regarding antisemitism and all assembly minutes since early 2021 of Harvard’s high boards.