Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard who came under heavy criticism after her failure to respond to the antisemitism on Harvard Campus following the Hamas attack on oct 7, has announced that she will be resigning from her position. Claudine Gay was the first black president and the second woman to become Harvard’s president.
In a letter to the university, Dr. Gay wrote that after consulting with members of the university’s governing body, the Harvard Corporation, “it 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.”
Meanwhile, Alan M Garber, an economist and physician will be serving as Harvard’s interim president. Dr Gay will be continuing her work as tenured professor of government and African and African American studies.
Weeks after she and the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT appeared in Dec 5 congressional hearing, Gay is the second one to put her papers down, in which all of them presumably attempted to evade question of whether students who called for the genocide of jews should be punished or not.
Shortly after, Elizabeth Magill, president of University of Penn resigned, Sally Kornbluth who represented MIT also faced protests and calls demanding her resignation.
Gay who has also been accused of Plagiarism defended er academic record and suggested that she’d become a target of highly personal and racist attacks.
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