More than 500 Harvard faculty members supported University President Claudine Gay in a letter to the school’s board Sunday, following intense blowback from a congressional hearing about the rise in antisemitism on campus, where Gay failed to clearly state whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated the Ivy League school’s rules.
The Harvard Corporation and the Harvard Board of Overseers, the university’s second-highest governing body, met Sunday amid mounting pressure from donors and lawmakers to remove Gay from her post. The Harvard Corporation is also scheduled to meet again on Monday.
According to the Harvard Crimson, the Harvard Corporation is weighing whether to make a public statement in support of Gay.
[All this proves is that Gay isn’t the extent of the problem at Harvard. This suggests that a far-reaching reform of both personnel and policy is what’s needed, and the best way to incentivize that is by cutting off all federal funding to Harvard … loans, grants, research, etc. The only way to do that while being content-neutral is to end those programs entirely and let the universities set their policies in a market with drastically reduced demand. — Ed]
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