harvard university president claudine gay is resigning from her position just six months into her tenure, the shortest in harvard history. it comes after weeks of controversy involving a plagiarism scandal and her testimony on capitol hill about antisemitism on campus. cnn s miguel marquez has more details. reporter: a second ivy league president out in less than a month. haharvard univiversity p presid clauaudine gay s s t tenure e j months long was mired in controversy. the weight of multiple allegations of plagiarism following a poor performance in a capitol hill hearing about antisemitism resulting in her resignation. in a letter to the harvard community, gay wrote that her exit came with a heavy heart. it has become clear that it is in the best interests of harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this
into her tenure, the shortest in harvard history. it comes out there weeks of controversy involving a plagiarism scandal and her testimony on capitol hill about antisemitism on campus. cnn s miguel marquez has more details. reporter: a second ivy league president out, in less than a month.. harvrvard univerersity presisidt claudine g gay s tenure jujust x months-long was mired in controversy. the weight of multiple allegations of plagiarism following a poor performance in a capitol hill hearing about antisemitism, resulting in her resignation. in a letter to the harvard community, gay wrote that her exit came with a heavy heart. it has become clear that it is in the best interest of the harvard community for me to resign, so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenges to focus on the institution, rather than any individual.
the problems continue, including pressure from congress, the house committee that is investigating this plagiarism scandal. they made clear they are still want that mountain of documents from harvard. harvard is still very much on the hook to turn over this mountain of documents. we also know that there s an anti-semitism investigation from that same house committee. there s also a federal probe from the education department looking into allegations of anti-semitism and islamophobia. they have to find a new president of this school, one who is going to repair the reputation that has taken a big hit. i also think how all of this has gone down the last few weeks ha has raised questions about thehorse vard corporation. that s the powerful top board at harvard. it s chaired by the billionaire former obama official, and there s a lot of questions about what happened here. how do they go from saying they are unanimously behind her and
ongoing plagiarism scandal. reverend al sharpton announced he and the national action network plan to picket outside of millionaire bill ackman s office tomorrow in protest of what they call the relentless campaign against gay. ackman was a harvard alum and a vocal critic of hers. harvard student and member of harvard hill, charlie, thanks so much for being with us. what do you think the tipping point here was? what do you think it was looking at this that finally caused claudine gay to resign? yeah. thank you for having me on, john. i think that eventually the plagiarism accusations probably, the dam break at some point and it was just too much reputational damage to the institution and for its students for her to stay on, but i think it s also important, as she said in her letter that now that she is gone for the focus to return to the actual university rather than any one individual and hopefully we can go back to what precipitated all of this which is an epidemic of anti-semitism
she resigned after a firestorm of controversy starts there into the national spotlight. at a congressional hearing last night, and the university presidents were criticized for failing to explicitly say without equivocation tackles for the genocide of jewish people constituted bullying and harassment on campus. the pressure intensified as an ongoing plagiarism scandal involving her academic writings revealed a growing list of violations. i became the focus of a house congressional investigation. a letter to the harvard community, they wrote that it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and upholding scholarly rhetoric. the values that are fundamental to who i am. frightening to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animist. joining me tonight we have former communications kamala harris. and cnn political commentator. i do want to note here that