Under Review

About Under Review

How can Harvard, an institution with so much history, have so little memory? The racial reckonings and Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country this past summer brought attention to a trend in how Harvard seems to deal with student activism and concerns surrounding race, racism, and diversity: to commission a diversity review. These committees and reports long predate this summer, and reading them it can seem, at times, like some things have not changed at the University — in race relations, Harvard’s review process, or the findings and recommendations. What can these diversity reviews accomplish, and what can’t they? “Under Review” is a podcast from The Harvard Crimson, hosted by Matteo Wong and Olivia Oldham, chairs of The Crimson’s weekly magazine, Fifteen Minutes. Each week, they will explore controversies and diversity reviews stretching across 40 years of Harvard history, speaking to dozens of students, activists, experts, and more, to try and understand how the Harvard diversity review works — or doesn’t. “Under Review” is produced by Zing Gee and Thomas Maisonneuve. Music by Ian Chan. Art by Meera S. Nair.

Publisher

The Harvard Crimson

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Mar 2021

Latest episode

24 Apr 2021

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Apr 2021

   V. Dueling Reports: Part Two

   In the final episode of Under Review, hosts Matteo Wong and Olivia Oldham continue to put competing reviews of racism and the Harvard police head-to-head, returning to the question: How can an institution with so much history have so little memory?

2. 

   17 Apr 2021

   IV. Dueling Reports: Part One

   In the first half of the finale of Under Review, hosts Matteo Wong and Olivia Oldham put two reviews of the Harvard University Police Department, one by University-hired consultants and the other by abolitionist activists, head to head.

3. 

   8 Apr 2021

   III. The Presidential Taskforce

   In Episode 3 of Under Review, hosts Matteo Wong and Olivia Oldham try to understand what makes a diversity review successful — and what, exactly, defines success — by looking at the most important diversity review at Harvard from recent years.

4. 

   2 Apr 2021

   II. A Strange House

   In Episode 2, hosts Matteo Wong and Olivia Oldham rewind 40 years to the story of the 1980 report, “A Study of Race Relations at Harvard College,” and ask why it seems to have been forgotten in recent University climate survey efforts.

5. 

   26 Mar 2021

   I. Yardfest

   In Episode 1 of Under Review, hosts Matteo Wong and Olivia Oldham explore an incident of police violence against a Black undergraduate from April 2018, the resulting review committee, and its reverberations to the present day.

6. 

   18 Mar 2021

   Introducing: Under Review

   "Under Review" is a podcast that explores controversies and diversity reviews stretching across 40 years of Harvard history, speaking to dozens of students, activists, experts, and more, to try and understand how the Harvard diversity review works — or doesn’t. Hosted by Matteo Wong and Olivia Oldham, this five-part series will explore how Harvard deals with student activism and concerns surrounding race, racism, and diversity. This series will be published weekly on Tuesdays. Give it a listen. Presented by the Harvard Crimson. Produced and edited by Zing Gee and Thomas Maisonneuve. Podcast art by Meera Nair. Music by Ian Chan.

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