she would still have the job. it has been distressing dealt past with confronting hate and upholding scholarly rigor to bedrock values that are fundamental to who i am. and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus. gay is saying, you don t care about plagiarism, anti-semitism or losing $1 billion. you are just a racist. gay knows exactly how you feel because know how they feel walking through the campus calling for murder. and the resignation is an attack on all black women. president gay s resignation is more than personal sentiment. this is a attack on every black woman at this country who has put a crack in the glass ceiling. it is an assault on the health, strength, and future of
Claudine Gay, Harvard s first Black president, announced her departure just months into her tenure in a letter to the Harvard community. Following the congressional hearing, Gay s academic career came under intense scrutiny by conservative activists who unearthed several instances of alleged plagiarism in her 1997 doctoral dissertation.
embattled harvard president claudine gay stepping down, abruptly ending her turbulent six-month tenure as the institution s first black president, the shortest term of anyone in that position. in a letter to the harvard community, gay writing it has become clear that it is in the best interest of harvard for me to resign, and that it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor, two bedrock values that are fundamental to who i am, and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus. antisemitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying. reporter: calls to gay s hearing prompted a backlash to this response at last month s congressional hearing when republican elise stefanik pressed her about antisemitism on college campuses. does calling for genocide of jews violate harvard s rules of bullying and harassment, yes or no? it can be, depending on the context.
MSNBC guest Mara Gay said the ousting of Harvard's President, Claudine Gay, is an attack on "academic freedom" and "multiculturalism."