The primary black President of Harvard College resigned Tuesday, the celebrated US college’s scholar newspaper reported, after she confronted criticism over allegations of plagiarism and her dealing with of anti-Semitism on campus.
Claudine Homosexual was criticized in current months after reviews surfaced alleging that she didn’t correctly cite scholarly sources in her tutorial work. Her time was the shortest presidency within the College’s historical past.
The newest accusations got here Tuesday, revealed anonymously in a conservative on-line outlet.
Homosexual was additionally engulfed by scandal after she declined to say unequivocally whether or not calling for genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s code of conduct, throughout testimony to Congress alongside the heads of MIT and the College of Pennsylvania final month.
The college’s governing Harvard Company backed her after her look earlier than Congress, however did criticize her response to the October 7 assault in Israel because the campus group reacted to the struggle in Gaza.
Greater than 70 lawmakers together with two Democrats referred to as for her resignation, whereas quite a lot of high-profile Harvard alumni and donors had referred to as for her departure.
Nonetheless, greater than 700 Harvard school members had signed a letter supporting Homosexual.
The college didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Homosexual, 53, was born in New York to Haitian immigrants and is a professor of political science who in July turned the primary Black president of 368-year-old Harvard College, in Cambridge, outdoors Boston.
AFP
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