From the Harvard Crimson: U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon urged Harvard to follow Yale University’s example and undertake a sweeping review of its academic practices and campus culture at a congressional hearing last month. In a brief exchange with Rep. Elise M. Stefanik ’06, McMahon — who has played a leading role in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Harvard — praised Yale for a wide-ranging April report that scrutinized the university’s admissions policies, grading standards, academic culture, and commitment to free speech.
That 58-page report, produced by a Yale presidential task force, argued that high tuition, opaque admissions, grade inflation, and constraints on open discourse had helped erode public trust in elite higher education. The authors proposed a series of reforms, including curbing special admissions preferences, adopting a 3.0 mean GPA or another schoolwide grading standard, and revising Yale’s mission statement. McMahon called on Harvard to produce a similar self-indictment. “I’d like Harvard to take the Yale example of really doing the research and doing the surveys and understanding what is going on in their community and taking actions on their own,” McMahon said in her testimony...
Full story https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/6/16/mcmahon-harvard-yale-testimony/.
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