Harvard University president Claudine Gay announced Tuesday she is stepping down from leading the prestigious school and will return to the faculty following weeks of controversy over campus politics and her own academic record.
“It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president,” Gay, who took office as president on July 1, 2023, wrote in the emotional missive.
“[I]t has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual,” she explained of the decision to make hers the shortest presidency in the school’s history.
News of Gay’s resignation comes just six months and a day into her historic presidency — which marked the first time a black leader helmed the nation’s most prestigious university — and broke one day after six new allegations of plagiarism brought the total number of claims against her to well over two dozen.
Gay had also come under fire in October for her slow response to condemn Hamas for its terror attack on Israel. In her resignation, she said she had also been subjected to racism since the controversy started.
“It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor — two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am — and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.”
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The Harvard Corporation — the university’s highest governing body — also confirmed Gay’s resignation in its own statement.
Harvard provost and chief academic officer Alan M. Garber will step in as interim president, the corporation said.
House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who questioned Gay during her disastrous appearance before Congress, pulled no punches after hearing of the resignation.
“The resignation of Harvard’s antisemitic plagiarist president is long overdue. Claudine Gay’s morally bankrupt answers to my questions made history as the most viewed Congressional testimony in the history of the US Congress,” said Stefanik, a Harvard alumna.
“Her answers were absolutely pathetic and devoid of the moral leadership and academic integrity required of the President of Harvard.”
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The latest accusation claimed that Gay lifted nearly half a page of material verbatim from David Cannon’s 1999 book “Race Redistricting and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts” for her own 2001 article, the complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon stated.
Cannon, however, denied that Gay’s use of his work was plagiarism.
“I am not at all concerned about the passages,” he told the Washington Free Beacon.
“Both Dr. Gay and I are defining basic terms such as Section 2 and Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, covered jurisdictions, and bailout. Good definitions of these terms would have to use similar language or they would not be accurate!” he insisted.
“This isn’t even close to an example of academic plagiarism.”
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One response to “Embattled Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns after bumpy 6 months on the job”
Apparently some people want to bomb civilians in a ghetto and commit genocide without any obstacle… and certainly they will not let a black woman criticize them.