By: Matthew Foldi

Harvard University had a rough year on the Hill. In 2024, the school was subject to a high-profile hearing in which its president Claudine Gay failed to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews, for example, and subsequent revelations of her plagiarism forced her to resign in disgrace.

Recently, one GOP office flagged for the Washington Reporter that the university sent a mailer advertising its “Crisis Leadership in Higher Education” program, which a staffer said “essentially credentializes university protest response.”

According to Harvard’s materials, Hill staffers aren’t among the targeted audience for this program, which focuses on “campus protests[,] natural disasters, public health crises, and faculty misconduct.”

“Given the verbiage of the letter and the accompanying pamphlet, which advertises the recommended applicants as university personnel, I don’t think that they meant to send this to a Congressional office,” a staffer told the Reporter.