Josh Encinias writes for National Review Online:
The student activist group “HKS Speak Out” falsely claimed that the Harvard Kennedy School will hold a required session during orientation about “checking” their personal power and privilege, the school says.
The activist group has said “the administration [is] on board for training all Harvard Kennedy School first years,” but the public-policy school’s director of media relations, Doug Gavel, says this isn’t accurate.
“The school currently offers a number of opportunities for students to discuss and learn about issues of diversity,” Gavel said. “We have certainly engaged in discussions with this student group on this issue and have told the students categorically that the school has no intention of offering a session on ‘power and privilege.’” The school will, however, be revamping its diversity training, he said.
Several publications reported the Kennedy School had agreed to hold a mandatory orientation event regarding the idea of “checking your privilege,” and Gavel said he doesn’t know how the misinformation spread or whether the students will be disciplined for spreading the falsehood.
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