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“Our extensive discussions confirm our belief that President Gay is the right leader to help our organization heal and solve the serious organizational problems we are facing,” the board said.
Gay has faced intense criticism and calls for his removal from lawmakers and prominent donors in recent days after his Dec. 5 testimony before a House committee, where he could not him and two other university presidents to be honest about whether it would violate the call for the genocide of the Jews. rules of their university. Gay later apologize and clear his speech, said he called “It’s bad, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be punished.”
Gay has also seen an increase in support in recent days. This week, faculty and alumni signed letters demanding that he remain in Harvard’s top job and calling on university leaders to protect the Harvard’s independence and anti-politics. However, others have launched a petition calling for his removal – and allegations have surfaced on social media and from the right that Gay has falsified parts of his academic work, including his 1997 PhD thesis.
The Harvard Corporation, the university’s highest governing body, shot down the allegations in a statement, writing that, at Gay’s request, “prominent political scientists” conducted an independent review and found “a few instances of incomplete citations” but “no violations of law. Harvard guidelines for research misconduct.”
Gay is “requesting editorial corrections in two articles to include quotations and punctuation that were removed from the original publication,” the Foundation wrote.
Gay and the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology fielded questions from lawmakers in court recently about how they deal with anti-social behavior on campus. The school and others have faced accusations that they have allowed protests to take place on their campuses since the October 7 conflict between Israel and Gaza sparked violence on campus.
Liz Magill, the president of Penn, resigned on Saturday after her testimony during the trial was condemned. Like Gay, Magill would not say that calling for the killing of Jews should violate campus rules on speech, but said “it’s a decision that depends on the context.”
Asked the same question, Gay told lawmakers that such speech was “contrary to Harvard’s values” and, if “speech becomes conduct, it violates a our policies.” After his speech, more than 70 members of Congress signed a letter calling for his resignation – and the House Committee on Education and the Human Resources opened an investigation into the academic environment at Harvard. The university is also facing a separate investigation from the Ministry of Education, which is investigating allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia in some institutions.
Gay later apologized for his remarks in an interview with the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, saying “threats against our Jewish students … have no place at Harvard and never will.” then challenged.”
The Harvard Foundation’s statement, signed by all 11 members of Harvard College, praised Gay’s final comments: “President Gay apologized for the way he handled his congressional testimony and he has pledged to redouble the University’s struggle against antisemitism.”
Gay has been at Harvard since 2006 and was dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences before he became president in July. He is the first Black person to hold the job.
It’s a creative story. It will be updated.