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She took no responsibility for the plagiarism allegations nor the state of campus hatred toward Jews and Israel. Despite the resignation as university president, Ms. Gay will remain a Harvard faculty member. The school’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, first reported the resignation. Ms. Gay’s tenure was just over six months and is the shortest in the 387-year history of the school. Ms. Gay has been accused of plagiarism stemming from her career in academia. According to a report from The Washington Free Beacon, there were six new plagiarism charges against Ms. Gay in a report submitted anonymously to the...

Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned after a disastrous, brief tenure at as head of the prestigious university. In an email to colleagues today, she wrote that she was standing down after 'consultation' with the school's board, which has been under pressure to replace her after defending her congressional testimony about campus antisemitism. She failed to acknowledge where she went wrong - making no mention of her refusal to condemn antisemitism as harassment at a December 5 congressional hearing or the mounting claims of plagiarism against her - but said she had been the victim of racist threats. 'It has...