Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University on Tuesday following a turmoil-filled month that began with criticism to her answers in a congressional hearing about antisemitism in college campuses and continued with accusations of plagiarism in her academic work.
Calls for Gay's resignation began after she was unable to say unequivocally that calls for the genocide of Jews would violate Harvard's conduct policy. Fellow Ivy League president Liz Magill, from the University of Pennsylvania, resigned on December 9 after facing swift backlash for the same issue. MIT president Sally Kornbluth remains in her post.
