Retiring Harvard professor says college hates brilliant white men and rejects them in favor of inferior minority candidates to boost diversity
Historian James Hankins, 70, has decided to step down from Harvard because of the alleged changes in admission standards that he says resulted from the George Floyd protests.
A Harvard professor says he is leaving the institution after 40 years over its alleged obsession with DEI in admissions.
Historian James Hankins, 70, claims the Massachusetts college first began turning down 'brilliant' white, male students in favor of diverse candidates in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
The professor published a lengthy essay in Compact in which he revealed he is departing the institution for the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida.
Hankins decided to leave Harvard in 2021 after experiencing the university's strict Covid policies and the changes in admission standards which he claims resulted from the George Floyd protests.
He signed a four-year retirement contract in the Fall of 2021 which has now come to its end.
'In reviewing graduate student applicants in the fall of 2020 I came across an outstanding prospect who was a perfect fit for our program,' Hankins wrote.
'In past years this candidate would have risen immediately to the top of the applicant pool. In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that “that” (meaning admitting a white male) was “not happening this year".''
The professor then provided another example of a 'certifiably brilliant undergraduate [he] had tutored,' who also got the short end of alleged changes to admission standards.
James Hankins, 70, is a historian who specializes in Western history and has led a 40-year career at Harvard
Hankins explained that he decided to retire from Harvard back in 2021, in light of the university's strict COVID policies, such as mandatory masks and Zoom seminars
Hankins also cited the alleged changes in admission standards that resulted from the George Floyd protests and led to diversity being favored over qualification
Hankins explained that the young man, who was white, was 'the best student at Harvard,' and had won the prize for graduating senior with the best overall academic record.
Despite the student's qualifications, he claimed he was rejected from every graduate program he applied to in 2021.
When Hankins called friends and colleagues at different universities to figure out why the young man was rejected, 'everywhere it was the same story,' he wrote.
'Graduate admissions committees around the country had been following the same unspoken protocol as ours,' the professor explained.
'The one exception I found to the general exclusion of white males had begun life as a female.'