Harvard president remains leader of Ivy League school following backlash on antisemitism testimony
Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, the university's highest governing body announced Tuesday.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the Harvard Corporation said in a statement following its meeting Monday.
Only months into her leadership, Gay came under intense scrutiny following the hearing in which she and two of her peers struggled to answer questions about campus antisemitism. Their academic responses provoked backlash from Republican opponents, along with alumni and donors who say the university leaders are failing to stand up for Jewish students on their campuses.
At issue was a line of questioning that asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate the universities바카라 게임 웹사이트 code of conduct. At the hearing, Gay said it depended on the context, adding that when 바카라 게임 웹사이트speech crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Some lawmakers and donors to the the university had called for Gay to step down, following the resignation of Liz Magill as president of the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The Harvard Crimson student newspaper first that Gay, who became Harvard바카라 게임 웹사이트s first Black president in July, would remain in office with the support of the Harvard Corporation following the conclusion of the board바카라 게임 웹사이트s meeting. It cited an unnamed source familiar with the decision.
A petition signed by more than 600 faculty members had asked the school's governing body to keep Gay in charge.
바카라 게임 웹사이트So many people have suffered tremendous damage and pain because of Hamas's brutal terrorist attack, and the university's initial statement should have been an immediate, direct, and unequivocal condemnation,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the corporation's statement said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Calls for genocide are despicable and contrary to fundamental human values. President Gay has apologized for how she handled her congressional testimony and has committed to redoubling the university's fight against antisemitism."
In an interview with The Crimson last week, Gay said she got caught up in a heated exchange at the House committee hearing and failed to properly denounce threats of violence against Jewish students.
바카라 게임 웹사이트What I should have had the presence of mind to do in that moment was return to my guiding truth, which is that calls for violence against our Jewish community 바카라 게임 웹사이트 threats to our Jewish students 바카라 게임 웹사이트 have no place at Harvard, and will never go unchallenged,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Gay said.
Testimony from Gay and Magill drew intense national backlash, as did similar responses from the president of MIT, who also testified before the Republican-led House Education and Workforce Committee.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, a committee member who repeatedly asked the university presidents whether 바카라 게임 웹사이트calling for the genocide of Jews바카라 게임 웹사이트 would violate the schools바카라 게임 웹사이트 rules, voiced her displeasure on X, the social media platform, about the decision supporting Gay.
바카라 게임 웹사이트There have been absolutely no updates to (Harvard바카라 게임 웹사이트s) code of conduct to condemn the calls for genocide of Jews and protect Jewish students on campus,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트The only update to Harvard바카라 게임 웹사이트s code of conduct is to allow plagiarists as president.바카라 게임 웹사이트
The corporation addressed allegations of plagiarism against Gay, saying that Harvard became aware of them in late October regarding three articles she had written. It initiated an independent review at Gay's request.
The corporation reviewed the results on Saturday, 바카라 게임 웹사이트which revealed a few instances of inadequate citation바카라 게임 웹사이트 and found no violation of Harvard's standards for research misconduct, it said. Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications, the statement said.