Claudine Guy is also suspected of having plagiarized content from her university work.
“It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard I am writing to announce that I will be stepping down from my position as university president,” the 53-year-old Guy wrote.In his resignation letter published on Tuesday.
More than 70 members of Congress, including two Democrats, as well as former Harvard students and prominent donors, have called in recent weeks for Jay's removal. However, the Harvard educational community supported its president, who remains in office to this day.
Harvard's leadership, which accepted his resignation, praised his “remarkable resilience in the face of persistent and profound personal attacks.”
“If part of this matter is revealed publicly, the greater part of it has taken shape Vile and in some cases racist attacks against her, through Email messages And the shameful phone calls“, the foundation said in a statement.
Definition of harassment “according to context”
The president is a professor of political science He took office in July, becoming Harvard's first black deanIt is located near the city of Boston on the east coast of the United States of America.
Some conservative wings immediately objected to his choice, citing suspicions of plagiarism. The controversy worsened with Answers given by the dean when asked about the anti-Semitism revealed in Campus From several universities from OctoberIn response to Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip against the Palestinian Hamas movement, which is coordinating the invasion of Israel and the attack on civilians that on October 7 resulted in the deaths of 1,200 Israelis.
Thousands of students from Harvard University and other institutions of higher education have reproduced Palestinian political theses against Israel, in various ways and without any opposition from the university authorities. Students and teachers who disagreed with these views expressed on social media that they felt persecuted and fearful due to the resulting climate. In addition to Jay, officials from the University of Pennsylvania, IMT and MIT, Elizabeth Magill and Sally Kornbluth, were also questioned.
Jay was accused of doing little or nothing to ensure the safety of Jewish professors and students at the universityAfter it was the subject of a congressional hearing that lasted about five hours.
Republican Representative Elise Stefanik at the time considered the calls for an “intifada” recorded during the protests as incitement to “genocide against the Jews in Israel and the world.”
When Stefanik asked Whether “advocating the extermination of Jews violates Harvard’s rules on harassment, yes or no?” “This may be so, depending on the context,” Claudine Guy admitted.before adding “if it is directed against someone”.
“If talk turns into action, it can become harassment,” Magill responded to the same question. “It's a context-dependent decision.”
Chapter II
The responses spread widely, and even led to a reaction from the White House, which, in the words of one of its spokesman, Andrew Bates, considered, “It is unreasonable to say that calls for genocide are brutal“.
Claudine Guy was born in New York to a family of Haitian immigrants, and became the longest-serving president of Harvard University since its founding in 1636.
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Jay is the second president of the Ivy League, which brings together the eight elite North American universities, to resign, following Elizabeth Magill.The president of the University of Pennsylvania who left his position under intense pressure.
In addition to the controversy over college deans' response to student protests, there have also been suspicions in recent months that private funding may be the root cause of the dangerous anti-Semitic drift most recently revealed in 2016. Campus American university students.
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