Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned amid allegations of plagiarism and criticism of her testimony at a congressional hearing, Associated Press reports.
Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, faced scrutiny of alleged instances of plagiarism in her 1997 doctoral dissertation. The Harvard Corporation initially supported Gay, acknowledging “a few instances of inadequate citation.” However, they later found two additional examples of “duplicative language without appropriate attribution.”
Gay’s resignation comes after a controversial congressional hearing where she faced backlash for her response to a question about calls for the genocide of Jews. Gay later apologized, acknowledging her failure to denounce threats against Jewish students properly.
