Harvard to adopt Chicago's Kalven Report, after getting burned by pontificating administrators this past fall

That's the good news.  The bad news is that two Harvard professors (including philosopher Alison Simmons) felt the need to try to pretend what their committee recommended was different from the Kalven Report.   Just reading the latter makes clear how inapt their characterization of it is--it stood for a lot more than "neutrality."  It was predicated precisely on a statement of the university's values and missions, and made clear the University and its officers and units should always be free to speak in support of those (including the university's admissions policies).  Even if Harvard narcissism prevents them from acknowledging it, I am glad they have adopted Kalven principles--the university's leaders, but also its faculty, will be better for it.

(Thanks to Jerry Coyne for calling this to my attention.)