'Tone-deaf': Harvard president sorry for comparing wealthy donors to slaves
The president of Harvard University has apologized for giving a speech in which he compared rich alumni donors to freed slaves.
In a speech on Tuesday to hundreds of members of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school's alumni relations and fundraising staff, Bacow used the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in America in 1865, to suggest that Harvard's 12 individual schools no longer own their wealthy graduates, according to the Boston Globe, which first reported on the comments.
Bacow referenced the 13th Amendment in response to a question about"The Harvard Campaign" -- a concept adopted by his predecessor, Drew Faust, as part of a university-wide fundraising effort to encourage donors to give to schools they have no connection to.
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