Harvard University has decided to rebrand its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as the “Office of Community and Campus Life,” in what appears to be an effort to hide an operational DEI regime from public scrutiny.

Stripping the words “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from offices and job titles has been one strategy institutions have used to get away with keeping the ideology alive while subverting efforts to eradicate it.

Harvard, notably, is under intense scrutiny from the Trump administration because of its refusal to end its DEI initiatives, and while its friends in the propaganda press want Americans to believe they are rebranding the DEI office as a concession to the Trump administration, hiding DEI does not mean it is gone.

“In the weeks and months ahead, we will take steps to make this change concrete and to work with all of Harvard’s schools and units to implement these vital objectives, including shared efforts to reexamine and reshape the missions and programs of offices across the university,” Sherri A. Charleston, the school’s former chief diversity officer (whose job title has been changed to “chief community and campus life officer”), said in a Monday announcement.

Her message did not make clear what “concrete” changes would be made, according to the Harvard Crimson, and the school did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Federalist. However, the DEI office website remains active, with unchanged branding.

Charleston’s email did acknowledge that a genuine sense of free expression on campus was diminished, and that the new office would focus on creating dialogue — whatever that means.

Despite this acknowledgment (and even if one is generous enough to believe that the rebranding represents some form of concession to the Trump administration), Harvard’s entire demeanor toward much of the federal scrutiny has been rigid obstinace.

Earlier this year, Harvard President Alan Garber stubbornly defended DEI ideology, claiming it was a condition of academic excellence and a “critical enabler of learning.”

“Exposure to different backgrounds, different perspectives, different experiences, leads to intellectual and personal growth,” he added, without acknowledging that all DEI has done is prioritize certain ethnic groups, sexes, or bizarre claims of incoherent gender identities over other people. If DEI was working so well to bring “different perspectives,” why, now, is the charge of the rebranded office to fix the problem with lack of free expression at Harvard?

The school’s official news website also put out an article earlier this month titled “Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration,” after the Department of Education announced a review of about $9 billion in federal funding to the school in response to its lackluster response to protests last year. The Trump administration announced a freeze of $2.2 billion in funding, and Harvard subsequently announced a lawsuit challenging the freeze.

Harvard’s rebranding came the same day that the Department of Education announced yet another inquiry into the discriminatory activities of the school. This time the department is focusing its sights on the Harvard Law Review because the prestigious journal “appears to pick winners and losers on the basis of race, employing a spoils system in which the race of the legal scholar is as, if not more, important than the merit of the submission,” according to Craig Trainor, the department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights.

The investigation, which is a joint venture with the Department of Health and Human Services, is based on reports of potential Title VI violations pertaining to the “policies and practices for journal membership and article selection.”

According to the joint department press release, a Harvard Law Review editor reportedly said it was “concerning” that “[f]our of the five people” who wanted to write on police reform were “white men.”

A different editor reportedly said that “a piece should be subject to expedited review because the author was a minority.”