© Miles J. HerszenhornHarvard President Claudine Gay will step down less than one month after her controversial testimony before Congress.
University Provost Alan M. Garber '76 will serve as Harvard's interim president during a search for Gay's permanent successor, the Harvard Corporation — the University's highest governing body — announced in an email on Tuesday.
Harvard spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on Gay's decision to step down.
Gay's resignation — just six months and two days into the presidency — comes amid growing allegations of plagiarism and lasting doubts over her ability to respond to antisemitism on campus after her disastrous congressional testimony Dec. 5.
Gay weathered scandal after scandal over her brief tenure, facing national backlash for her administration's response to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly work.
Gay is expected to announce her decision to step down to Harvard affiliates in an email later today. The Corporation is also expected to make a statement about the decision.
The announcement comes three weeks after the Corporation announced unanimous support for Gay after "extensive deliberations" following the congressional hearing.
This story will be updated.
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She was told to fall on her sword to keep the bucks rolling in from alumni. Board members and administration can now act appalled, while continuing to use the woke rhetoric that impresses 19-yr-olds, and doing their real job of being gatekeepers who control the number of people who get into the 1% club.
You know the Charles Lieber story , who set up a nanotech lab in Wuhan, China, and was being paid by the Chinese something like $50,000 a month and not reporting it. He was arrested of course, and set free by the PTB in January 2020 right before the plandemic..
In 2019, WaPo published, "Presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology acknowledged in separate announcements this week that their connections to financier Jeffrey Epstein went deeper than previously revealed, further entangling the elite institutions with a donor who was a convicted sex offender."
Then of course there was the Lancet HCQ kills people retracted article , and the lead author was Dr. Mandeep Mehra, The William Harvey Distinguished Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Peer review? This ONLY came out because other scientists requested the data used.
The Epstein connection to all of these "ivy" schools (and Stanford and John Hopkins) will reveal much more of the corruption in these schools.
What else ...