Harvard Crimson, Harvard Grad Schools Rebrand Diversity Offices as University Wipes DEI Messaging:

Several Harvard graduate schools shuttered their diversity, equity, and inclusion offices over the past two weeks, continuing the University’s effort to replace DEI programs that the Trump administration has broadly painted as illegal.

The Harvard Divinity School replaced its diversity office with an Office of Community and Belonging on July 1, the office’s dean wrote in a Thursday email, and the Harvard School of Public Health announced Friday that it would take the same step by renaming its diversity group the Office for Community and Belonging.

Harvard Business School websites that previously advertised support for minority, women, and LGBTQ students have been removed. Staff at HBS whose titles previously included “diversity and inclusion” are now involved with “community and culture.”

And the Harvard Graduate School of Education laid off its chief diversity officer, Jarrod Chin, and closed its diversity office last week, according to the Boston public radio station GBH. The office’s website and Chin’s profile are still online, and Chin and a school spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.

A Harvard spokesperson declined to comment on the changes. …

Several graduate schools have yet to follow suit in overhauling their diversity programming. The Harvard Kennedy School, Law School, and Design School have not announced changes.

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