What led to Harvard president Claudine Gay's resignation?

Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday after six months on the job. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion breaks down the events that led to Gay's resignation.
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[@emort6]

The people who hired her in the first place should held accountable, this goes deeper than just one bad decision.

[@metamorphicorder]

I mean when you go that route you inherently hobble any hinest selection process because people are cowardly and skittish for good reason. Cowards live to fight another day. Im a much bigger fan of managing and nudging the cowards when and where necessary and holding the most directly responsibly party... responsible. And you are placing an impossible task on selectors. People make mistakes and the infinite breadth of human experience and possible events is so broad that one cannot even 'unreasonably' be held responsible for unforeseeable eventualities.

[@jsigala50]

No it does not stop drinking the Kool aid

[@dw309]

This is what happens when you hire for diversity quotas.

[@georgeskanderbeg3242]

​@@jsigala50😂😂😂 says the lib

[@user1qaz2wsx3edc]

Those who hired Biden are accontable..

[@mvgamer9637]

A student at Harvard caught plagiarizing most likely gets expelled. The president can not be a career plagiarist and expect to keep her job.

[@kristyreynolds8334]

She kept her job until SHE resigned.

[@starangwonder2594]

@@kristyreynolds8334 She still has A job at Harvard making 900,00K a year teaching Marxism.

[@lotsoffun4716]

@@starangwonder2594It's a shame that she is still at Harvard.

[@mungodegrijalva822]

Sounds like you already convicted her without evidence, due process or listening to her side of the story. Not the American way.

[@Soma81]

@@mungodegrijalva822 The Democratic way right child?

[@vandalorianvandalorian4769]

“There’s Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself” -Claudine Gay

[@arbyjack2552]

OMG. Best one yet!

[@lancecahill5486]

“2 fear”:not “to fear”. That’s how she would have written it ! 😂😂

[@hibabe5038]

How about I'm not a crook

[@brockjensen2473]

3 of the people I work with at my firm went to Harvard I asked them about their opinion on this matter and all 3 of them said the same thing. 1 kid in their graduating class got caught plagiarizing (which was ultimately a misunderstanding because he forgot to attach his sited sources page) but regardless he was expelled no ifs, ands or buts. That is a reputable school known as one of the most prestigious universities in the entire world, I find it rather embarrassing a school of such high honor holds their students to a higher standard than the staff, including the president of the university herself. As far as I’m concerned this says a whole lot about Harvard as a university. Ironically, the University of Pennsylvania fired Liz Magill for similar reasons and I assure you that is a far less reprehensible university than Harvard.

[@KTravRuNEr]

They could sue no?

[@brockjensen2473]

@@KTravRuNEr it’s a good question, in my opinion there’s certainly a chance they could win that suit but at the same time there is a good possibility Harvard could claim my coworker’s classmate’s was for academic credit and if his case was heard how many others could claim the same and so on. But regardless in my opinion this is a huge permanent stain on the reputation of a school I once held in such high regard, especially because of how the university backed her for all this time and still was refusing to fire her before she offered her resignation.

[@wyattfamily8997]

"Was" is the key word.

[@Cardinnall]

You have 3 co-workers from the same Harvard graduating class? Statistically extremely unlikely. I'm not inferring you are lying.

[@truthray2885]

What's a "reprehensible university"?

[@cheerwhiner7829]

Money. She was losing the University money, plain and simple. They don’t care about academic integrity- if they did, she wouldn’t have gotten the job in the first place. They don’t care about certain students threatening certain other students with obliteration- this was never about that. They only care about money. Simple as that.

[@machtnichtsseimann]

I hope you're not right about this, but it's entirely possible, especially given Harvard's favoritism towards certain hateful speech/rhetoric against "certain" students, but...not vice versa. Hmmm.

[@luismart7714]

You nailed it.

[@dolapoogunsanlu6865]

Well, you are right about money but WRONG about her qualification. So are you saying someone of her academic background cant be president of Harvard?

[@ronalrocco4788]

🤑😁🦨

[@HomerSimpson514]

Money talks and bs walks

[@heavyd777]

Harvard is like a big hedge fund that teaches some classes. Imagine causing the Harvard hedge fund to lose $1 billion dollars in just the 3rd quarter. You would be Claudine Gay. That is the real reason she resigned as president of Harvard.

[@creekandseminole]

Those hedge fund folks probably went there too

[@WhiteDragon110AC]

There is a lot more to it than just that . Learn everything you can about it before just assuming it is all about money.

[@landocallbackesian3884]

There's a lot more to it than what you think, learn everything you can about it before assuming it's not all about money!@@WhiteDragon110AC

[@mikewubben2844]

@@WhiteDragon110AC OK, tell us what more there is because it's always about the money.

[@tonyalvarado4810]

@@WhiteDragon110AC Do You seriously believe the money did not play the most factor? Look at their typical annual tuition fees and let's start there. There is so much money and status to lose for this private company.

[@dollydog5]

The real issue here is that she refused to do the right thing in the Congressional hearing. I've watched the exchange many times. I am absolutely shocked at how they tried to cleverly sidestep the issue of calls for genocide. It was jaw dropping.

[@mijo5964]

That’s Lefties for ya.. the most well-educated hypocrites ever to walk the earth

[@magnoliamike]

The older I got, i dust to understand politics more and more and you watch all these Senate and congressional hearings and all they do is double speak no one actually answers a question truthfully, and honestly without carefully choosing their words. It’s really a waste of time.

[@BottomLineBassin2]

Who knew the real antisemites were running our colleges?!

[@emort6]

​@magnoliamike It wasn't a waste this time, the dems have been exposed as the racists they've always been.

[@BrotherMax6]

@@mijo5964 I am a liberal, and even I was in shock at how horribly all of the university presidents handled that. They had the easiest opportunity to do the right thing, embarrassing to say the least.

[@jazz4asahel]

Interesting that she could not write a coherent letter of resignation.

[@ozztenn]

Her plagiarism was unreal. She essentially copy and pasted entire paragraphs. It's unbelievable....the level of entitlement and to deny the obvious... Unspeakable.

[@waynewayne9693]

MLK did the same.

[@thelmadickinson6811]

But she black. It be ok.

[@saucyrossy3698]

Yeah but trump was….like….SUPER mean so…ya know….its fine. Also everyone is racist and men can menstruate.

[@XGMC921]

Bye Felicia.

[@YouTube_is_full_of_trolls]

​@saucyrossy3698 lol, that's not why people don't like Trump 😅😂

[@BecauseReasonsReviews]

"To resign or not to resign, that's the question." - Claudine Gay.

[@X_x_ShadowGaming_x_X]

Underrated comment.

[@magnoliamike]

Gay

[@kovie9162]

She should have resigned thereafter...

[@ranger-pd5gc]

And she might claim that as an original statement, LOL!

[@arbyjack2552]

“You’re either first or you’re last. “. - Claudine Gay.

[@sjishere3354]

"Ask not what Harvard can do for you, but what you can do for Harvard," said Claudine Gay.

[@MrErpolitics]

‘Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what can your country do for you’ - Claudine Gay 1961

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Ridiculous Modules USD SGD

[@stujew57]

We have nothing to fear, but fear itself... Claudine Gay 1933

[@supercharger5727]

@@NazriBthere joking about her blatant plagiarism

[@miramacanovic6435]

Gibran

[@petermarshall6577]

She calls it racism against her.(kettle black)..what is genocide if not the highest form of racism...I guess we can call racism against her "it can be depending on the context" being outed for plagiarism IS NOT RACISM.

[@klgm63]

Of course she says it's racism. That's her "go to."

[@thepartyrodigo9228]

Sure it was plagiarism that they dug up lol 😂 after she made statements against Israel

[@sharksport01]

I bet she plagiarized her resignation letter.

[@Bwilliams2]

LOL

[@WhiteDragon110AC]

😂

[@petarmilutinovic6307]

Hahaha 😂

[@abdullahal-shimri3091]

Used ChatGPT

[@BlessednFavored47]

@sharksport01 I get up out my bed to pick up phone across the room just to leave this comment…yoooo😂😂🤣🤣🤞🏽💫💀

[@peterkiviat9969]

Now we know how long the Board being 100% behind you lasts at Harvard.

[@seanyoung5397]

She shouldn't have resigned. She should have been fired!

[@RacerX1971]

Before I earned my Masters degree in Counseling, my professor kept on reminding us on not to plagiarized and we had to take a class on how to cite. Every chapter of my thesis was scrutinized and again my professor reminded me and others about the consequences of plagiarizing..this was a public state university..imagine that and Ms. Gay is the president of Harvard and she got away with plagiarism..so pathetic..this is the exact reason why college students and young people have lost their trust in the system..horrible...and it cost about 300k to earn a BA degree at this rotten and corrupt school?😂😂😂

[@barneyronnie]

Fortunately, I was awarded scholarships to grad school where I earned a PhD in pure mathematics. This was at a top math department, but not Harvard! I am retired😊.

[@RacerX1971]

@@barneyronnie, nice!!

[@CSWdenji69]

Sounds like u plagiarised this speech.

[@carbonc6065]

Where I come from, it's worse: They push kids through high school even if they don't have the credits/grades to graduate ... It's scary AND sad.

[@cncaliguy09]

Accused but sounds like a character assassination because all these papers were published or reviewed. I hear terms like "almost" verbatim. Verbatim is verbatim, in math 1+2=3 not 1+2 and like almost 3. They used terms nearly, mostly, and other words. I ended looking at actual article source from the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative online journal, and the parts claiming to be plagiarized in three of them are using a definition. If I can't go in Webster Dictionary and write plagiarized is described as such and such then what is the point of referring to the definition. They claiming this plagiarism will dumb down the institution of education. The system is already dumb down. Look at the source yourself, use your own mind, and discuss after. Not a bunch of "professionals" have referred facts and assume what the media says is actual factual because the art of journalism is basically a fancy version of copy paste with new words and few facts.

[@donakahorse]

how is it racist to expect to be held to the same standards as the students when they should be held to an even higher standard?

[@thepartyrodigo9228]

Because she wasn’t fired because of anything but her not condemning antisemitism period

[@donakahorse]

@@thepartyrodigo9228 so her prolific use of other peoples work without crediting them had nothing to do with it? Not condemning antisemetism should have been enough, but she wasn't going to resign until her papers were discovered to consist of too many instances of plagerism for it to be ignored.

[@magnus08f250]

Because we are not all equal

[@recherche4528]

I’d like to see her contract. Why did she wait until January 2nd to resign? Does it technically mean she worked in 2024 for the University and is entitled to more money?🤔

[@jeffreyeshbach9372]

It’s really quite simple; Harvard saw it was affecting their bank account so she had to go. That’s as far as their “solidarity” extends.

[@PoochieCollins]

I'm not defending Claudine, but she wasn't fired, she resigned. This is at least one point for Harvard in that they're not solely money-motivated.

[@jeffreyeshbach9372]

@@PoochieCollins I would be willing to put money on that resignation being a “you can resign and make it look like your choice or we can remove you from your position,” scenario. Most people will resign in those cases because it looks better for them when they go on to find future employment. The point is, they had her back until donations started drying up.

[@PoochieCollins]

@@jeffreyeshbach9372 that's speculation. Until credible leaks prove otherwise, Harvard had her back the entire time. I'll note that most professors didn't sign the petition or whatever it was, such that it's possible most professors didn't have her back; AFAIK the administration did.

[@Osrsw31]

When evil has nothing around to corrupt it begins to eat itself

[@gregj831]

Well said.

[@CSWdenji69]

The edgyness is off the charts 🤣

[@melkam647]

Nice. You may be onto something here.

[@QueenAleenaFan]

It's almost like if you appoint someone for their gender and race rather than their merit, they may turn out to not be the right candidate.

[@surfergirl2943]

Exactly. she’s claiming racism as the reason people are asking her to step down which is laughable. An embarrassment.

[@barcotics1880]

still better than any white person to ever have been president

[@dmartinezguitarart]

Hmmm, You mean like Kamala Harris or Ketunge or whatever the hell her name is!!

[@SuperRONDALE]

@@surfergirl2943you got proof she was hired because of her race other than your racist thoughts?

[@trefontaine]

@@SuperRONDALE yes, the plagiarism is the proof

[@GauntletKI]

Claudia Gay needs to have her PhD revoked

[@Joe6packAmerican]

Yale and Harvard's degree are less impressive now knowing what they're teaching and how they're manipulating grades.

[@dubc562]

My 1st year college roommate was placed on academic suspension for citing a source incorrectly (he gave credit but used a footnote that did not EXACTLY match the page numbers listed in his works cited page). I've seen a foreign student get loudly ripped and kicked out of a chemistry final for using the wrong form period table. This all happened in the mid 2000s. Its crazy to see how much standards have fallen since that time.

[@cmonman3639]

DEI is a race to the bottom.

[@kentuckyking4343]

Ok but that isn't what happened here 😂

[@normalguycap]

That happened to me too. I don't feel better about what happened to me but this is a tiny bit of vindication for those incompetent pricks.

[@BecauseReasonsReviews]

Rules are only for people like her to push on you and I, not for her to follow.

[@speteydog2260]

Yes there was a girl at my university that cheated one time, and she almost did not graduate. That was 1981.

[@Anton-yc1uk]

Harvard's president..... this??!! We are in trouble.

[@RyanRapid]

Its good shes gone

[@cmonman3639]

You seem to be under the impression that Harvard isn't complete garbage.

[@snap4720]

​@Ryan-vi3ro she still employed there just not as President

[@Justin-nq6kf]

Bro have you been paying attention to colleges and wokeness in the past 10 years? lol

[@ManWithFace]

Why is her being black upsetting you so much?

[@chrisoakley5830]

She was finally evaluated on the content of her character, Dr. King's dream came true.

[@BrokenBarBox]

And that ladies and gentlemen, is how you end any debate on this topic

[@JockMacHH]

It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. - Claudine Gay.

[@whenraindropsfall]

Silence only enables the biggest atrocities of mankind wdym lol

[@stujew57]

It depends on the context...

[@papacool1700]

Well, and strongly, said.

[@miriamhavard7621]

🤷

[@islandmamabear841]

😂😂

[@voodooreptiles3553]

It's INSANE that she still gets to teach at the school. Wow just WOW!

[@healthyb-fu5zd]

She's got black armor.

[@lordfriezachrist6546]

Why do you care, you couldn’t even get into a school like Harvard. Community college at best for you

[@Robert-qh2jp]

And neither could you ​@@lordfriezachrist6546

[@masbestiaquetu]

Like you’d ever get accepted into Harvard lmfaoooo

[@chs9627]

@@lordfriezachrist6546 planet of the apes

[@DallasSniper]

She submitted a letter of resignation, but it was found to have been plagiarized.

[@franksanz1044]

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. - Claudine Gay

[@christopherjavens3438]

Good luck Gay has no character

[@JohnCavendish-ql4jc]

I have a dream when noone will be fired for defending our first amendment...

[@lancecahill5486]

I have a dream that by changing a few words, I can claim that I wrote War and Peace, the Sequel. 😂😂

[@lancecahill5486]

@@christopherjavens3438You need to look up how sarcasm works.

[@juliebergmann2890]

DEI at it's finest

[@woody2875]

how she ever held this position is unfathomable

[@petergriffinson1907]

I tried so hard and got so far but in the end, it doesn’t even matter - Claudine Gay

[@arbyjack2552]

😂😂😂❤

[@oldguyofarizona8602]

RIP Chester

[@amoskowitz0103]

Question: What led to her resignation? Answer: She never should have been appointed in the first place. At the end of the day, that's the reason. If someone is hired because of their membership in an "underrepresented group" instead of being hired on merit, this is the end result EVERY TIME.

[@mthequietbass547]

If a student tried anything remotely close to what she pulled off they’d be expelled, minimum.

[@Andman8210]

Should show how much of scam it is.

[@PamMinnick]

She couldn't take the heat anymore, and didn't want to answer the hard questions she couldn't answer. She finally realized she has failed in so many ways.

[@gregorymichael6182]

Did she really realize why ??

[@klgm63]

I think what she realized was that she couldn't lie or manipulate herself out of the corner anymore.

[@douglasfortin9711]

I wonder how long before she's an honored guest on The View?

[@Jorr235]

As opposed to Donald Trump, a convicted sexual predator, being a guest on FOX News every night and leading the Republican Party.

[@Buasop]

You're in a cult

[@freedone.]

@@Buasop Watch the View, it is a biased cult making word salad to back up whatever the Left tells them to promote.

[@rachelsill79]

​@@Buasopsuch an intelligent argument. Don't tell me... you were on the debate team in college😂

[@brettwilson2589]

@@Buasopyou pretty much said “I know you are but what am I” while sticking your tongue out

[@roc5291]

If you’re ever feeling useless, just remember, the President of Harvard University lost her job in six months and not because she wanted to set a moral example or to atone for the problems she created….it was because she truly believed she would NOT be held accountable for her words.

[@dalesuhre6522]

The sad thing is if that was all she had done, she would not have resigned. There was too much plagiarism committed by her do not be ignored. After multiple evidence of plagiarism surfaced, I feel that Harvard would have eventually asked for her resignation had she not resigned, but they would have not asked for her resignation or fired her for her words that she said in testimony to congress. She was the first black woman to be president of Harvard and there was no way in hell they were going to get rid of her.

[@beeautifuldreamer2211]

Privilege at its finest. 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

[@emort6]

Sadly she has only been demoted, she still gets a paycheck, which makes me sick.

[@CSWdenji69]

What exactly did she do?

[@rositagunter4283]

She trusted in her invencible skin color

[@rich123480]

The reasons were very apparent. Why is this such a surprise that she is a bad person and did bad things very unprofessionally. Every one was waiting for this normal response for doing bad things.

[@lewisj4838]

I thought she just copied a paragraph, and then i did some googling, Jesus, she copies everyone. That's crazy

[@myanaloglife9450]

What happens to me or you if we plagiarize our dissertation? Let alone do over 50 times? Harvard said it’s just a small error? But they’ve expelled students for 1/50th the offenses…

[@bbyl1485]

Only fools believe it.

[@your_alter_ego]

I hope Harvard wakes up and hire someone on the basis of his/her merit, not the gender, race or religion 🎉

[@BobHansen-ik1ln]

No Chance of that

[@trappking8626]

@@BobHansen-ik1lnThank you so ppl just make stupid comments period

[@Element0145]

That may of been the case 10-15,years ago now that’s all that seems to matter to these people

[@dstorm7752]

Good luck with that,. In the Ivy League, only identity counts.

[@breadordecide]

The college of nepotism For rich white kids?

[@zibbitybibbitybop]

The fact that she resisted for this long is a disgrace. All those donors who revoked their funding should never give the money back.

[@zinoviyatotodova684]

I agree with you.

[@truthray2885]

You hate education? Not surprising.

[@papacool1700]

Fire the people who hid what Claudine Gay was doing.

[@lindamon5101]

How in the world did she get in there in the first place?

[@user1qaz2wsx3edc]

Just like Biden.

[@Arbiter567]

This is what happens when you hire based on diversity equity and inclusion instead of hiring for competency and best suited for the job. That level of blatant plagarism just screams how professionaly imcompetent she was.

[@aheudit]

Funny 🤔

[@DivadNoodeldehm-lz2gm]

#diversityhire. Thanks Obama!

[@markgordon5387]

Harvard should revoke her doctorate.

[@simex909]

Yup. The worst examples of plagiarism were in her PhD dissertation. It makes Harvard look like a diploma mill. I'd be interested to see if there are other examples of plagiarized dissertations earning PhDs at Harvard.

[@markgordon5387]

@@simex909 it does. Pay for a diploma. Hand in junk.

[@djtotalpackage_]

Why?

[@tjwallis7948]

@@djtotalpackage_why not?

[@amyh9512]

Certainly not up to the rigorous standards of trump u.😅

[@SuperGamer3000]

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” - Claudine GAY

[@toddsmith1687]

She should have been fired. Letting her resign is ridiculous.

[@sirwinston2368]

She's a liar and a cheat.

[@girlinvt]

Why did she get pressure to leave because she refused to stop anti semitism on Campus, she also had over 50 instances of not giving credit to people she used ideas, or entire paragraphs from. Now Matt Eagan over at CNN apparently has no idea that doing what Gay did was the literal definition of plagiarism. Plagiarism: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. If you don't credit the source you are giving the reader the impression that the idea or words are yours there by taking the credit for it. Once is an accident 50 times is either you lack the education or you are doing it deliberately. Either one should disqualify you from being a Dean of a college or a professor for that matter.

[@ghoulsvshumansuser7326]

they can't handle criticism, you know who i'm talking about

[@joshentheosparks7492]

She opposed political lobbies that threatened her student's lives. The ones that publicized the names and addresses of student leaders at her university for opposing war crimes. Her ouster is a win for ethnic cleansing, nothing else.

[@westerndecline8732]

How come she wasn’t fired for not stopping Anti White rhetoric on campus? Is it really in Americas best interest to have Zionists run all our elite universities?🤔

[@MB2.0]

​@@joshentheosparks7492 facts!!!

[@jpthsd]

I wonder if she was really earned her degrees LoL !!

[@ReinEngel]

Make Accountability Great Again.

[@davidl2469]

But she acts like she was entitled to cheat, highly disgusting

[@borisjohnson5985]

​@davidl2469 A lot of them have entitlement issues.

[@scottcutrer223]

Wow are we stepping back from the edge of insanity as a nation?

[@rickpetersen41]

No no we are not!

[@user1qaz2wsx3edc]

​@@rickpetersen41 Land of the free.. dom of speech. 😂

[@erastal]

When you cheat once people will look to find out if you cheated on anything else. The entire foundation of her academia career could be plagiarized, a lawsuit could easily come from this

[@Summer12388]

And I hope for a law suit against her

[@garter13]

Can you do Harvard now? Because the tools there defended her.

[@hypothalapotamus5293]

H-index of high ranking US University Administrators fired over the Israel-Palestine conflict: Claudine Gay- 11 (Claudine Gay was the first Harvard president in the last 20 years with an H-index higher than my shoe size, which surprises me.) Liz Magill- 8 (Again, this is really low and bad.) Phyllis M. Wise- 153 (2014 Gaza War... Enforced the use of a private email accounts to skirt an inevitable FOIA request during the un-hiring of pro-Palestinian Professor Steven Salaita. Apparently, the private email thing was illegal and you can't "un-hire" academics, you have to fire them.)

[@jukebox1138]

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” - Claudine Gay

[@chrisnicholson2407]

-Michael Scott

[@d-pinnit77]

😂😂

[@dovidbondar9734]

I mean it depends on the context

[@danielrickett9573]

Gettysburg Address by Lincoln

[@whatstheholdup3595]

😂😂😂

[@jimr5855]

those people at Harvard are so sharp it only took 1 month to figure it out... so damn smart they really are!

[@arbyjack2552]

It’s not about being smart… want matters is your skin color!

[@klgm63]

@@arbyjack2552 guess you haven't been following along. Before you make the remark about skin color why don't you read why she was ousted.

[@Avocado740]

Staying on at Harvard with a $900,000 per year salary is hardly a punishment.

[@YChef33]

That's because those allegations are just that allegations. Not true. If she honestly did that, do you really believe she would still have a job!?! They used those rumors for slander purposes and to discredit her

[@Avocado740]

It has been proven that she plagiarized from the works of Carol Swaine,@@YChef33

[@BrokenBarBox]

@@YChef33 really?

[@bobby-ov9qn]

@@YChef33 A quick check on Al Gore's amazing internet would give you all the evidence you would need. You might start at "The Washington Free Beacon".

[@johnnybravo1196]

Affirmative action hire

[@toofew100]

She is still on the Harvard staff. She NEEDS to be fired!

[@Loktoris]

Calm down Zion

[@Jaffjv]

She has tenure

[@williamwigginton377]

DON'T BE UPSET WITH THE HARVARD STAFF. I AM SURE THE GREAT SCHOOL OF HARVARD NEEDS A JANITOR.

[@whatstheholdup3595]

Gotta meet qoutas no chance they will fire her.

[@brademcee]

⁠@@LoktorisFY

[@pdrphil8159]

She should've been fired... Not allowed to resign where she gets buckets full of money & benefits.

[@rustyshackleford17]

Given the prestigious reputation of Harvard, they would have done their due diligence on her academic integrity. Something that was emphasized to me as early as Middle School. Hammered home in college. In my doctoral program, emphasized how it can destroy careers years down the road. In general, it was always consistent in it's necessity in citation (albeit more stringent the higher you go). Either Harvard was negligent in it's duty or intentionally overlooked it...

[@michaelmurphy6195]

When you fill positions excluding 93% of potential candidates, you will never have the best candidate.

[@MrHeavy466]

Claudine hurt the bottom line of the university. Nothing gets you to the axe faster.

[@healthyb-fu5zd]

She got in trouble with our overlords. Plain and simple. And wow!! What do you know!!? A tribe member has replaced her.

[@ScottyBennitone]

They are 6 out of 8 now Ivy league schools.. But yeah it must be all the wts in power...... lol

[@stevesimmons6685]

Excellent!

[@bcubed72]

In her resignation statement, Gay stated: _"Four score, and seven years ago..."_

[@dz.7246]

Well done lol

[@lancecahill5486]

No. She would have stated 5 years and 8 score ago…😂😂

[@user-kv5pm1vi5h]

Love how they sat there so smug like they were so right and wouldn't resign or get removed then like 2 weeks later badaboombadabing

[@lindat3607]

Took long enough, just her answers to questions asked said it all to me.. Guess its only hate when it's certain segments of society.

[@rebeccaoprea9917]

I have to wonder if affirmative action got her this position to begin with.

[@carolfiggins9122]

No, you don't "put it behind " you address how this university is inappropriately & dangerously operating, not in the best interest of their students OR their positions in the future of OUR country!!

[@freedone.]

The smile of her face when she responded in the public hearing said it all. She was not concerned for the Jews. She also took no accountability for the many examples of her plagiarism. This is not someone who should be president of a school that teaches a wide range of students and purports to hold high academic standards. Keeping her as a professor shows that Harvard is now a joke. They toss students for the slightest infraction of plagiarism yet she gets to keep a job as a teacher? That's problematic.

[@gregj831]

She was a poster child for the Woke Corporate Progressive Left.

[@ManWithFace]

what are your thoughts on Israel peppering child hospitals with White Phosphorous?

[@BIGMIKESKNUTTS]

@@ManWithFaceonly purple phosphorus is ok. Dude

[@SoraJustAGuy]

Oh yes, same way Julian Assange was found guilty of rape right after he revealed US military crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nah mate, she was just honest , and honesty is inconvenient to the current political agenda that’s all there is to it.

[@ManWithFace]

@@BIGMIKESKNUTTS Are you lost little bot?

[@mrock828]

I cant believe this happened, it's so unexpected! She deserved to be fired. They let her "resign" to save face but was fired. Either way its a good thing.

[@zebeart8808]

She wasn't attacked because of race, but for her antisemitism and plagiarism.

[@dbohler8640]

She “confronted hate”? I didn’t go to Harvard but I think she meant to say “promulgated and/or endorsed hate”.

[@CSWdenji69]

Elaborate

[@DeanTX]

Harvard really didnt want to force the "first black female president" to resign... but several billion in lost donations and a European school disassociating with them overcame the potential outrage.... hopefully this is a lesson, but i doubt it

[@mulder4528]

Ridiculous and most certainly an embarrassment to anyone who ever cared about academic integrity.

[@wes326]

"Four score and seven years ago, I had a dream that we hold these truths to be self evident that we ask not what your country can do for you. We shall fight on the beaches, and there is nothing to fear but fear itself. I now close my college career, a day which will live in infamy, and just fade away. " Claudine Gay

[@justarepublicandog2505]

Doesn’t matter if they fired her, Harvard’s stance on this hasn’t changed!

[@zid9611]

She is right context is key. And both side military are calling for genocide. The civ just want to be safe and have there home. She's just the escape goat. News blown up. Need to look like there doing something.

[@klgm63]

I think you're right. It was all about the mighty dollar.

[@carlsendav2781]

Note that most media outlets will rarely if ever use the term "disgraced" in describing this event.

[@garter13]

Of course, she is a "diversity" hire.

[@magnoliamike]

That’s because the left control of the media at least most of it.

[@christophersmith9838]

“Muted response”? Way to go CBS. And you wonder why people literally don’t believe what you say or follow you?

[@swingcity7]

I’ll answer for her: yes. the students were VERRRRRY happy she got bounced. they were among the loudest calling for her resignation. 😅

[@haseulibae7083]

"I can excuse genocide, but I draw the line at plagerism." "You can excuse genocide?"

[@HayK47]

It wasn’t her supporting the ideology of Adolf H. That was okay. But being a cheat was just too much.

[@justice4all977]

Well said! Best comment yet!!

[@nedsackmann2215]

She is qualified for the NY TIMES now

[@musirikrishnaswamy7670]

The word ‘Harvard’ henceforth means not education excellence but prejudice against a religion & dishonesty pays..

[@bobfeller604]

In the world of academia, plagiarism is the lowest of the low. It's also indicative of laziness and the lack of ability to process higher thought. Which describes Claudine Gay to a tea, and she should really have her Ph.D. stripped from her.

[@amyh9512]

Then there's trump u

[@runlikethewind8928]

This is what happens when you are hired, not for ability or merit but, for what arbitrary boxes you check.

[@tominva4121]

But her "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times...." work was outstanding.

[@NB-gn1pd]

she is a highly capable administrator and academic. What arbitrary boxes are you referring to? I hope you dont mean that she was hired simply because of her gender or race.

[@dillanadams6775]

@@NB-gn1pd Yah sure does look that way, someone thats qualified wouldnt do this.

[@ManWithFace]

@@dillanadams6775do you genuinely believe a billion dollar board would be willing to risk that, or do you simply want to justify your personal beliefs? diversity hiring is only relevant for getting your foot in the door and low-level management positions.

[@0x_hackerfren]

​@@NB-gn1pdshe literally plagiarized her academic work The ONLY thing she could have been hired for was rave an gender lmao

[@joefinn8660]

It is good that she resigned but she ought to have been fired way before this. Good riddance.

[@boryontotheleader2328]

My question is, why does it take so long to get rid if someone that breaks the rules these days?

[@kwantoon]

Their race and gender directly influence those decisions.

[@redwoodtrail]

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky -Michael Scott -Probably Claudine Gay

[@kwantoon]

lol

[@gregdcross]

""Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Claudine Gay

[@ronaldkonkoma4356]

I regret that I have but 1 life to give for my Harvard.

[@klgm63]

Totally cracks me up that she blames it on racism.

[@drewgagneaux5193]

‘I have a dream’ - Claudine Gay

[@volkswagenhawk7094]

Watching identity politics eat itself all while proving to be hyper incompetent is just fantastic. Truly fantastic.

[@crashes82]

It's not eating itself. There is one group coming out on top, as usual.

[@cristianzaharescu8694]

She is the face of affirmative action! 😂😂😂

[@Buasop]

I'm shocked you can see your keyboard through your hood

[@cristianzaharescu8694]

@@Buasop I am not sure I understand your comment...you are shocked because she was put in place through affirmative action, or you are shocked because she is accused for plagiarism? You know, biden was put in place like a toilet and also he was accused for plagiarism....typical for a democrat...

[@BrokenBarBox]

@@BuasopI’m surprised you can see yours from way up there on your high horse

[@lancecahill5486]

Claudine Gay’s phoniness finally caught up to her.

[@stevenhaffley9852]

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. - Claudine Gay

[@robertconway3519]

Why did this take so long? It's plainly obvious she had no business being in that position.

[@MyStupified]

A sad legacy for someone who will be remembered as the first black female president of Harvard. Shortest term ever and plagiarism. What an inspiration for my daughter.

[@defiantlypinki1107]

When I was in my doctor of pharmacy program, I was part of a group paper which we had to list a bunch of drug interactions for a medication. Due to similar wording and putting a footnote instead of quotations on our chart, we all were yelled at on a Zoom call with the Dean. I remember the story of another student who basically was expelled for plagiarizing himself by using his own research in a paper in had for the university. All I’m saying is, plagarism scares are more common than you would think in doctorate programs.

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

If your response to "is calling for genocide okay" for any group is "it depends on the context", you should be fired. Period. Any other group of people this was aimed at, this person would've been cancelled, career over, fired, done. I'm pro-diversity and pro-social justice and even I am appalled at the way the Jewish community has been subjected to double standards and failed by activist circles. This is even aside from the plagiarism allegations and the fact she dragged her heels on apologizing. Whatever side of the political spectrum you fall on, or whether you're pro-Israel or pro-Palestine or neither, you must agree she needs to go.