Claudine Gay threw in the towel Tuesday, resigning as president of Harvard University after facing six new plagiarism accusations.
gay said probably the original letter To school officials: “It is with a heavy heart, but with deep love for Harvard University, that I write this letter to inform you that I am stepping down as president. This is a decision I made easily.'' isn't it.”
“After consulting with members of the corporation, I believe it is in Harvard's best interest for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary difficulty with a focus on the institution, not the individual. One thing has become clear,” he continued. Gay.
Gay portrayed himself as a victim, suggesting that he finds it horrifying to be “subject to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial hostility.”
The outgoing president said he intended to return to the faculty “to scholarship and teaching, which are the lifeblood of our work.”
Gay was sworn in as Harvard's 30th president on July 1, after displaying a decidedly left-wing bona fides as Edgerly dean of Harvard's School of Humanities and Sciences.
brought a new emphasis Towards climate change alarmism and identity politics.
“Today we are at a moment of incredible and accelerating change socially, politically, economically and technologically,” Gay said ahead of the inauguration.
Gays seem unable to keep up with the accelerating changes.
Gay's tenure as president, the shortest in Harvard's history, has been plagued in recent months by multiple allegations of plagiarism and concerns about her handling of rising anti-Semitism on campus.
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obtained The complaint filed Monday with the university brings the number of plagiarism allegations against Gay to nearly 50, involving seven of her 17 published books, including her 1997 doctoral dissertation. include.
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claim In a 2001 article, Gay cited nearly a page of material from University of Wisconsin political science professor David Cannon's 1999 book, Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Majority Black Districts. He said that he had plagiarized the text without quoting it.
The university recently launched an investigation into the anti-gay allegations.
An anonymous undergraduate member of Harvard's Honor Council recently wrote an op-ed in the Harvard Crimson calling on Gay to “resign for numerous serious violations of academic ethics.”
“When my colleagues are found responsible for multiple instances of inappropriate citations, they often receive a one-year suspension,” the student wrote. “When the president of their university is found responsible for the same type of violations, corporate fellows “unanimously support her.''
In addition to being accused of trafficking in ideas and words that were not his own, Gaye oversaw segregated graduation ceremonies and angered critics by exaggerating an apparent increase in anti-Semitic acts on campus. , forced Ivy League organizations to pay an estimated $1 billion or more in donations. .
At a Congressional hearing early last month, she suggested that calls for the genocide of Jews could be protected under the university's policy on bullying and harassment “depending on the circumstances.”
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shown University spokesman Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on Gay's resignation.
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