HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY | News | The Harvard Crimson
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Harvard President Claudine Gay will resign Tuesday afternoon, bringing an end to the shortest presidency in the University's history, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.

Gay’s resignation — just six months and two days into the presidency — comes amid growing allegations of plagiarism and lasting doubts over her ability to respond to antisemitism on campus after her disastrous congressional testimony Dec. 5.

Gay weathered scandal after scandal over her brief tenure, facing national backlash for her administration’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly work.

  • Hegar@kbin.social
    5128·
    10 months ago

    I’d not been following this story closely because it all seemed so utterly inconsequential. I couldn’t understand why anyone was this angry that she followed a lawyers advice at a formal hearing.

    Now I see that she’s black in an important locus of elite power and it suddenly makes a lot more sense.

    • Ethan@lemmy.world
      4414·
      10 months ago

      Now I see that she’s black in an important locus of elite power and it suddenly makes a lot more sense.

      Not everything has to be a conspiracy about race. The white Penn administrator that screwed up their testimony in the exact same way in the exact same hearing was forced out in the exact same way.

      • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
        1921·
        10 months ago

        No, but when you’re a PoC, it’s much more likely that people latch onto your story and watch you closely for mistakes instead of just letting things slide.

        • Ethan@lemmy.world
          314·
          10 months ago

          But that’s very clearly not what happened here and it’s detrimental to the discussion at hand to falsely label it as such. She in fact was able to let it slide for multiple months longer than her white counterpart and Penn.

          • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
            14·
            10 months ago

            I don’t actually know anything about what happened in this specific case, I made a general statement.

        • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
          6·
          10 months ago

          You say, after there was a prime example of it not being the case? What was let slide with the other, white president? Nothing, she was immediately ousted.

    • Silverseren@kbin.social
      3210·
      10 months ago

      More or less. And she took a neutral stance on the issue of students exhibiting their free speech, rather than expelling them all for not supporting Israel.

      Which then led to all the certain well-known non-profits all about promoting Israel to start a furor calling for her resignation.

    • Blaine@lemmy.ml
      44·
      10 months ago

      I mean… even the Harvard Crimson has been posting op-eds from folks on the Academic Integrity Committee and student government calling for her resignation.

      She fucked around (50+ instances of plagiarism) and found out (forced to resign).