The House Education Committee announced subpoenas against Harvard University’s leadership Friday, saying the school has failed produce documents needed in the panel’s antisemitism probe.
The subpoenas against Harvard Corp. Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker, interim President Alan Garber and Harvard Management Co. CEO N.P. Narvekar are the first ever to be given by the House to a university.
Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) argues the escalation was necessary because out of the more than 2,500 documents the school has turned over, few satisfy a previous documents request.
“I am extremely disappointed in the path that Harvard has chosen to take in the Committee’s investigation,” Foxx said in a statement, pointing out that more than 40 percent of the documents produced were already publicly available. “Quality—not quantity—is the Committee’s concern.”
The committee is seeking documents from Pritzker and Garber regarding antisemitic actions on campus since 2021, documents from the task force against antisemitism that was created after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the meeting minutes since 2021 from the Harvard Corp. and its board. Narvekar is tasked with providing the meeting minutes for the Harvard Management Co. from Oct. 7, 2023, to Jan. 2 of this year.