She won't be leading the Crimson, but Green should be fine.
Claudine Gay, the outgoing president of Harvard University, is likely to still earn nearly $900,000 a year, even though she was forced to step down as the school's top administrator.
Gay, a political science professor who resigned Tuesday amid a storm of allegations that he did not do enough to combat anti-Semitism and academic plagiarism, will now return to his faculty position at the school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Become.
According to records released by the university, Gay earned $879,079 as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2021 and $824,068 in 2020, before being named president just six months ago.
Her new position was not disclosed Tuesday, but she is expected to receive a salary equal to or higher than what she previously received.
It was also unclear how much of the roughly $1 million presidential salary Gay would be entitled to after only six months in office.
Her predecessor, Lawrence Bacow, was collecting $1.3 million a year before retiring, according to . Harvard Crimson.
Alan M. Garber, currently president and chief academic officer, will serve as interim president until the school selects a new president, officials announced Tuesday.
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, a Harvard graduate who has emerged as Gay's chief critic, reversed a decision to allow him to remain on the faculty.
Stefanik argued that Gay's plagiarism charges were an indelible stain on the school's legitimacy.
“She is not fit to be a teacher,” Stefanik told the Post.
“It is unacceptable that Harvard University allows students to be expelled for plagiarism, while faculty members have nearly 50 instances of plagiarism in their very small academic output. I know it. Harvard University knows it.”
Members of Harvard's Student Honor Council also accused administrators of holding different ethical standards for faculty and students.
“Gays graduate easily,” an anonymous student told the school newspaper, explaining that a simple omission or omission of quotation marks can result in serious penalties such as one term of probation and the student's loss of “good standing.” He pointed out that there may be consequences.
Following Gaye's resignation, there are rumors that the board of directors, which openly defended her until the end, should be shaken up.
Visiting chemist Frank Laukin singled out Penny Pritzker, a billionaire Chicago hotel owner and senior fellow at Harvard University, and said she should “share responsibility and resign immediately” in New York. told the Times.
He added in an email: “Harvard needs new, independent members who are untainted by recent events and failures, and who are not tied to long-standing cronyism at the top of Harvard.”
Gay, who said he was stepping down to help stabilize the school amid the firestorm, said in a resignation statement that he looked forward to returning to “his teaching position and the scholarship and education that is the lifeblood of our work.” he added.
