Harvard University president Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing, where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.
Gay announced her departure, which came just months into her tenure, in a letter to the Harvard community.
She and the presidents of MIT and the University of Pennsylvania came under fire last month for their lawyerly answers to a line of questioning from New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who asked whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate the colleges’ code of conduct.
The three
