President of Harvard University, Claudine Gay announced her resignation on Tuesday. after she was embroiled in controversy over her statements last month about anti-Semitism before the US Congress and recent allegations of plagiarism in her academic work.

Gay, Harvard’s first black president, has come under scrutiny for her handling of institutional communications around war between Israel and Hamas and indicated in the letter that his decision to resign was in response to consultations with the center’s governing body, which confirmed its support.

The former provost hints at some “tensions and divisions” that have “weakened the bonds of trust and reciprocity” in the university community, “doubts” about her commitment to combating hate and her respect for academic rigor, and declares herself: “frightened” by personal attacks “fueled by racial animus.”

At a Congressional meeting held on December 5, amid tensions at universities over the war in Gaza, A gay man was asked whether calls for the genocide of Jews violate the rules of the educational institutionto which he replied that “it depends on the context”, which caused controversy.

At that meeting was another chancellor of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, who responded to lawmakers’ aggressive questioning in terms similar to Chancellor Gay’s.resigned from his position four days later.

Recently former rector was accused of plagiarism in her academic workand on Monday it was the subject of a complaint to the university, which is calling for an investigation as the number of examples of material not properly cited will rise to fifty, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

In December, Harvard’s governing body said a review of Gay’s work found examples of “inappropriate citations” but did not find them to be research misconduct, and The former rector herself asked for corrections to be made to two documents and updates the dissertation to facilitate it as indicated.

In a letter today, the body expressed regret over Gay’s resignation and attributed it to “escalating controversy and conflict” at Harvard, which extend to the sphere of “higher education”, Management sought to protect the “best interests of the institution.”

“(We accept the resignation) with pain. Although President Gay acknowledged the mistakes and took responsibility for them. It is also true that he has demonstrated remarkable resilience in the face of constant, deeply personal attacks,” he explained, while condemning the “disgusting and sometimes racist abuse” he received.

Gay, a political scientist, is completing the shortest term in the university’s history after being appointed rector last July and will return as a professor; She will be replaced in the position on an interim basis by Alan Garber, an economist and physician who has previously served as scientific director, the organization said.

EFE