Harvard President Claudine Gay resigning amid antisemitism, plagiarism accusations

Harvard President Claudine Gay is resigning Tuesday after simply six months in workplace, making hers the shortest presidency within the college’s 388-year historical past, in response to The Harvard Crimson.

The pupil newspaper reported that Ms. Gay, who assumed the highest job in July, is stepping down after being dogged by rising campus antisemitism and allegations that she dedicated greater than 40 cases of plagiarism in her scholarly writings.

Ms. Gay, a political scientist, was named the fortieth president of Harvard on July 1 after serving 5 years because the dean of the humanities and sciences college.

She turned the primary Black and second feminine president of Harvard.

Calls for her resignation soared after a Dec. 5 House committee listening to at which she and two different college presidents stated that whether or not calls for for “genocide for Jews” would violate their conduct codes would rely on the context.

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned days later, together with Penn Board of Trustees Chairman Scott Bok. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has stood behind Sally Kornbluth, the third president to testify earlier than the committee.

The Washington Times reached out to Harvard for remark.