Harvard president steps down: Why charges of plagiarism still stick
In the end, it was all about Claudine Gay’s words. Words that she did and didn’t say during a Dec. 5 congressional hearing in Washington. Words that she used in research without proper attribution.
Jewish students questioned if Dr. Gay could keep them safe on campus in the face of antisemitism. Billionaire Harvard alum Bill Ackman claimed that Dr. Gay only got her job because she was a diversity, equity, and inclusion hire.
Dr. Gay, only the second woman to hold the title of president of Harvard, and the first Black person, ended the shortest tenure in the university’s history on Jan. 2.
“Yes, I made mistakes,” Dr. Gay wrote in
