Claudine Gay speaks during the 368th Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 30, 2019. Brian Snyder | Reuters Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid new allegations of plagiarism, becoming the second Ivy League leader to step down after controversy over their congressional testimony last month about antisemitism on campus. … Read more
More than 500 Harvard faculty members are calling for Harvard to keep Claudine Gay as university president. Gay has apologized for her remarks during a congressional hearing on antisemitism. Penn’s president has already resigned. MIT’s board has issued a statement backing its president. In the wake of Tuesday’s widely panned congressional hearing on antisemitism, Harvard, … Read more
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Several hundred faculty members at Harvard University on Sunday signed a petition asking school administrators to not bend to political pressure to fire the school’s president over her Congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus. A concisely worded petition was signed by at least 570 professors and was delivered Sunday evening … Read more