Hours after the Student Advisory Committee president of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics declared that the organization should no longer be nonpartisan, the director reaffirmed the institute’s commitment to remaining nonpartisan.
On Nov. 8, student Pratyush Mallick authored an op-ed for The Harvard Crimson in which he expressed that the institute needed to choose “a commitment to democracy over a commitment to nonpartisanship” after Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election.
That same day, however, Director Setti Warren rejected Mallick’s view.
”As the director and leader of the IOP, I believe that for it to be successful, experiential learning must happen on a nonpartisan basis,” Warren wrote in a separate Crimson op-ed.
”True political leadership requires listening to — and being curious about — a variety of perspectives, some of which may be different than our own,” he continued. “It demands that we work to understand what others care about and what motivates them. Nonpartisan dialogues are critical to moving our country forward.” […]
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