Rufo obtains explosive proof that Harvard deliberately penalizes white men

Evidence has emerged that Harvard University is purposefully and maliciously carrying out racial discrimination against men.

The evidence was compiled by Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe of the Manhattan Institute. They obtained internal documents revealing that Harvard “deliberately penalizes white men in hiring.”

EXCLUSIVE: @RK_Thorpe and I have obtained internal documents from Harvard revealing that the university deliberately penalizes white men in hiring and would virtually eliminate supposed “oppressor” groups from certain occupations.

Inside Harvard’s discrimination machine.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 14, 2025

The madness starts with the school’s hiring guides. One guide, the “Inclusive Hiring Initiative,” calls for the school to build “an increasingly diverse workforce” by linking the tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) with its “selection process.”

Another hiring guide, “Best Practices for Conducting Faculty Searches,” contains blatantly discriminatory instructions, according to Rufo.

“At the beginning of the hiring process, Harvard instructs search committees to ‘ensure that the early lists include women and minorities’ and to ‘consider reading the applications of women and minorities first,’” Rufo explained over on Substack.

“The university counsels that committee chairs should ‘continually monitor’ the racial composition of the candidate list and, as they narrow it down, ‘attend to all women and minorities on the long list,’” his reporting continued.

Faculty hiring is also engineered to filter out white men. Harvard’s official guidebook instructs departments to favor “women and minorities” at each step in the process, telling officials to monitor applicants by race and to move white men to the back of the reading pile. pic.twitter.com/y5B4IUg4of

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 14, 2025

Citing Harvard’s documents, Rufo also noted that the school’s committee chairs are purposefully granted access to “self-identified demographic data, including gender, race, and ethnicity” and encouraged to “use this information to encourage diversity in the applicant pool, long list, and short list.”

But Harvard isn’t just discriminating with its faculty hiring — it’s also discriminating with its hiring of administrative and support positions.

“[T]he university has adopted explicit racial hiring goals for administrative and support positions under the guise of affirmative action,” Rufo explained.

They’ve done this by listing the percentage of employees who belong to a so-called “protected class” and comparing that to target goals.

“For example, the university declared a goal of increasing the share of minorities in one department’s alumni affairs office nearly sixfold, and of raising the share of female assistants in the School of Public Health to more than 90 percent,” Rufo noted.

This is one of Harvard’s affirmative action plans, which sets aggressive racial targets, including increasing the number of minorities in certain occupations by nearly 500% and reducing the number of white men across dozens of occupations—which, @MorenoffDan says, is illegal. pic.twitter.com/8RU98nkzJ4

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 14, 2025

These findings come amid an effort by the Trump administration to rein in Harvard University’s discriminatory practices toward both potential students and potential staff.

The administration has so far frozen all future grants and threatened to eliminate the school’s tax-exempt status. In response, Harvard has bent the knee slightly by cancelling its racially segregated graduation ceremonies — no joke — and rebranding its DEI office.

Behind the scenes, though, it’s clear the school continues to act in violation of the principle of equality by, as another example, through the promotion of diversity statements.

Speaking with Rufo, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member Gail Heriot, a law professor, described these diversity statements as a form of ideological conditioning.

“At other universities, faculty candidates who respond to such inquiries by saying that they treat all individuals equally regardless of race, ethnicity, or sex get excluded from consideration,” she said. “The same is probably in store for any job candidates at Harvard who dissent from the campus orthodoxy on this issue.”

She went on to slam the school’s hiring goals and guides.

“Employers seldom set goals like these if they don’t intend them to be acted on,” she said. “These particular goals are hilarious. Harvard has a few job categories that are already female dominated, sometimes with over seventy percent of its employees in those categories being female. ”

“Rather than being concerned with why more men aren’t applying, Harvard sets a goal to make these job categories even more female dominated,” she added.

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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