Harvard’s outgoing president Claudine Gay voiced her response to the rollercoaster of accusations-turned-resignation in an opinion piece, highlighting the heightened racism she has encountered in recent weeks.
Ms Gay became Harvard’s first Black president in July 2023. But she made another first in the university’s history this week — the shortest tenure of any president — when she resigned after facing criticism about her response to anti-semitism following the Hamas attacks followed by new scrutiny into her scholarly work.
