Harvard University announces that under-fire President Claudine Gay will keep her job — even after reportedly losing more than $1 billion in donations since her disastrous congressional testimony about antisemitism and not condemning pro-Hamas protesters who call for genocide of Jews on her campus.
The Harvard Corporation: “In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay.”
Statement from the Harvard Corporation:
“Dear Members of the Harvard Community,
As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay’s continued leadership of Harvard University. Our 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.
So 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. Calls 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.
With regard to President Gay’s academic writings, the University became aware in late October of allegations regarding three articles. At President Gay’s request, the Fellows promptly initiated an independent review by distinguished political scientists and conducted a review of her published work. On December 9, the Fellows reviewed the results, which revealed a few instances of inadequate citation. While the analysis found no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct, President Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications.
In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay. At Harvard, we champion open discourse and academic freedom, and we are united in our strong belief that calls for violence against our students and disruptions of the classroom experience will not be tolerated. Harvard’s mission is advancing knowledge, research, and discovery that will help address deep societal issues and promote constructive discourse, and we are confident that President Gay will lead Harvard forward toward accomplishing this vital work.
The Fellows of Harvard College”
StopAntisemitism statement on Harvard’s refusal to remove President Gay:
“Just as President Claudine Gay failed to protect her students from rampant antisemitism, the Harvard Corporation has failed to hold her accountable. Despite its begrudging and belated apologies, Harvard richly deserves the Congressional investigation to which it is currently subject, having lost all credibility on matters of antisemitism.
The Corporation’s decision serves only to greenlight more Jew-hatred on campus.
StopAntisemitism continues to call for President Gay’s resignation, and urges the Corporation to reconsider its decision and hire someone who is committed to protecting every Harvard student.”
In voicing its unequivocal support for President Gay, Harvard is reinforcing the double standard against Jews that it claims not to exist.
— David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) December 12, 2023
You know that something is wrong when the entire Harvard Board voted *unanimously* to keep the president who needed to hear the context before condemning Jewish genocide.
For the good of the institution and the reputation of Harvard, they should now vote to resign unanimously. pic.twitter.com/emPsTCaMGN
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) December 12, 2023
Conservative students can’t speak freely at Harvard.
Jewish students & faculty don’t feel safe.
Donors are pulling their money.
And Harvard President Claudine Gay still REFUSED to condemn antisemitism.
It’s time for her to resign. pic.twitter.com/REtLCeGdld
— Mercedes Schlapp (@mercedesschlapp) December 12, 2023
There have been absolutely no updates to @Harvard’s code of conduct to condemn the calls for genocide of Jews and protect Jewish students on campus.
The only update to Harvard’s code of conduct is to allow plagiarists as president.
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) December 12, 2023
If this woman had any sense of decency and integrity, she would have resigned. Instead, #ClaudineGay is taking @Harvard down a path of no redemption! pic.twitter.com/mHoN2puwjl
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) December 12, 2023
