Gay is out: Harvard President Claudine Gay was ousted resigned yesterday, setting a record for the shortest tenure in the formerly esteemed university's nearly 400-year history.
In December, Gay—along with Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania—was grilled by members of Congress on how elite universities handled campus fallout from Hamas' October 7 pogrom of Israeli civilians. At Harvard specifically, over 30 student groups circulated and signed a declaration stating that they "hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence," calling it "the apartheid regime." (All protected speech, sure, but all stunning given the college campus proclivity for safe spaces, trigger warnings, and shoutdowns of far more anodyne speech.) Since then, Magill has been ousted, but Harvard's governing body said they unanimously stood behind Gay after "extensive deliberations" following her testimony.
