University leaders said last month she did not engage in research misconduct, and some scholars were skeptical of the claims. Some questioned whether Gay — who in July became Harvard’s first Black president — was being held to a different standard because of her race . [...]At the hearing, Gay, University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill and MIT president Sally Kornbluth declined to state plainly that a call for genocide against Jews would violate their university’s code of conduct. www.washingtonpost.com/...x First day of on the job ins January 2024 and Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, resigns after a torrent of pressure over the holiday break. Harvard University has made some crucial mistakes over the last year, including buckling to donor influence.

Source: Washington Post January 03, 2024 07:10 UTC