Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Elise Stefanik released the following statement after reports that Harvard University was creating barriers for entry into their Board of Overseers election process.
"The very public fall of Harvard continues in disgrace as it has recently come to my attention that Harvard is now inappropriately interfering with the election of the Board of Overseers to block candidates who are not self-selected by the current failed Harvard leadership.
After multiple candidates stepped up to run to save Harvard from its current failed, morally bankrupt leadership, Harvard is not only arbitrarily moving the goalposts of the Board of Overseers election process, it is suppressing the vote by adding in unprecedented complex roadblocks to limit participation - all of this happening with 0% transparency behind closed doors in hopes that the public won't take notice.
If all of this sounds familiar, it's because it is: the desperate radical Far Left rigs the system when they know they can't win.
If Harvard thinks their stonewalling of the Congressional investigation will protect them from accountability, they are mistaken. On the contrary, the list of egregious acts by Harvard meriting Congressional oversight keeps growing and growing. They continue to dig deeper into the morass of moral bankruptcy shredding academic integrity all while maintaining an arrogant sense of entitlement. The reality is that Higher Education institutions like Harvard rely on billions of dollars of US taxpayer funds. It is our responsibility on behalf of the American people that we have full transparency in the governance structure (in this case a failed one) of these institutions and deliver accountability and much needed reforms."
