According to Campus Reform, “Controversial former Harvard University President Claudine Gay remains as a faculty member a year after her resignation from leading the Ivy League school.”
The highly controversial former president Claudine Gay remains a professor at Harvard despite having a turned a blind eye to violent and threatening behavior at Harvard.
Gay was also accused of plagiarism something students are penalized for.
“Gay gained heavy criticism during a congressional hearing in December 2023 in which she was asked if “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates Harvard policies. Her answers included, “It can be, depending on the context.”
“When pressed about the specific “context,” Gay replied that the call for genocide needed to be “targeted at an individual.”
“The ex-president garnered further criticism after various allegations that she plagiarized as a doctoral student in the 1990s.
After resigning, Gay wrote a New York Times op-ed in which she stated she “made mistakes,” but clarified that, “I proudly stand by my work and its impact on the field.”
According to Harvard’s website, Gay serves as the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies.
“Gay’s research areas consider “how neighborhood environments shape racial and political attitudes among Black Americans,” “the roots of competition and cooperation between minority groups, with a particular focus on relations between Black Americans and Latino,” as well as the “processes of immigrant political incorporation.”
According to The New York Post, “After resigning as president last year, Gay was expected to retain her salary of almost $900,000.”
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