Harvard President Claudine Homosexual to remain in workplace with unanimous help from college board

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard President Claudine Homosexual will keep in workplace after getting help from the best governing physique on the college Tuesday.

“On this tumultuous and tough time, we unanimously stand in help of President Homosexual,” the Harvard Company mentioned in an announcement.

Homosexual and the presidents of MIT and the College of Pennsylvania have been underneath intense criticism since final week after they every testified earlier than Congress about antisemitism on school campuses.

Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik requested Homosexual, “At Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s guidelines of bullying and harassment, sure, or no?”

“It may be, relying on the context,” Homosexual mentioned.

After their testimony, greater than 70 members of Congress, principally Republicans, demanded all three presidents resign. College of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned Saturday.

“I’m sorry,” Homosexual later informed the Harvard Crimson. “Phrases matter.”

A whole lot of college at Harvard signed a letter calling for the college’s two governing boards to withstand stress from politicians and donors to drive Homosexual to resign.

The Harvard Company, the best governing physique on the college, met to debate Homosexual’s future on the college Monday.

“We as we speak reaffirm our help for President Homosexual’s continued management of Harvard College,” they mentioned in an announcement Tuesday morning. “Our intensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Homosexual is the correct chief to assist our neighborhood heal and to deal with the very severe societal points we face.”

“President Homosexual has apologized for the way she dealt with her congressional testimony and has dedicated to redoubling the College’s battle in opposition to antisemitism,” the company mentioned of their letter to “the Harvard Neighborhood.”

Homosexual has additionally been accused of plagiarizing parts of her PhD thesis. In an announcement to the Boston Globe, she mentioned “I stand by the integrity of my scholarship.”

The company additionally addressed that challenge of their assertion, saying, “With regard to President Homosexual’s tutorial writings, the College grew to become conscious in late October of allegations concerning three articles. At President Homosexual’s request, the Fellows promptly initiated an impartial assessment by distinguished political scientists and performed a assessment of her printed work. On December 9, the Fellows reviewed the outcomes, which revealed a couple of cases of insufficient quotation. Whereas the evaluation discovered no violation of Harvard’s requirements for analysis misconduct, President Homosexual is proactively requesting 4 corrections in two articles to insert citations and citation marks that had been omitted from the unique publications.”

MIT president Sally Kornbluth has additionally refused to resign. The college’s governing board mentioned she has their “full and unreserved help.”