How Harvard’s Board Broke Up With Claudine Gay
Claudine Gay was in Rome on a family vacation on Dec. 27 when Penny Pritzker, the leader of Harvard University’s governing board, called to ask: Did she think there was a path forward with her as the school’s president? Ms. Pritzker sounded weary, and it was posed as an open question, two people with knowledge […]
Claudine Gay Turmoil Forces Harvard’s Secretive ‘Corporation’ Into Spotlight
On Tuesday, the day before Harvard acknowledged more problems with its president’s scholarly work, two members of its governing body sat in a private dining room at Bar Enza, a popular Cambridge restaurant, and faced a grilling. It was an exceedingly rare opportunity for a small group of prominent academics to speak directly to members […]
Opinion | Why Harvard’s Claudine Gay Should Go
Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, should resign. I don’t love thinking so and hoped we would not reach this tipping point in the controversy over whether she should be retained in her position. But a tipping point it is. Harvard has a clear policy on plagiarism that threatens undergraduates with punishment up to the university’s equivalent […]