Claudine Gay steps down as Harvard President over plagiarism claims, antisemitism controversy
Hindustan TimesHarvard 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. Dr. Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. The president of Harvard University Claudine Gay will resign January 2, 2024, the prestigious US school's newspaper reported, after she faced criticism over allegations of plagiarism and her handling of anti-Semitism on campus. On Thursday, Rabbi David Wolpe resigned from a new committee on antisemitism created by Gay, saying in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that “events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony reinforced the idea that I cannot make the sort of difference I had hoped.” The House committee announced Thursday it will investigate the policies and disciplinary procedures at Harvard, MIT and Penn.