Harvard University’s longtime provost will take over as interim president after Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday following weeks of backlash over her disastrous House testimony about on-campus antisemitism — and numerous accusations of plagiarism in her academic work.

The Harvard Corporation confirmed that physician and economist Alan Garber will temporarily replace Gay while the school searches for a new leader. …

The physician and economist became Harvard provost in August 2011 after he taught medicine, economics and health research and policy at Stanford for about 25 years, according to the Boston Globe.

(via Lucianne)

[An interesting choice for more than one reason. Garber appears to be the antithesis of the DEI-drenched recruitment process that produced Gay last year, for one thing — an older white man in Academia. Garber also comes at least in part from the hard sciences, where his academic track record will be guaranteed to stand up to scrutiny. Garber was critical of Harvard’s response to the eruption of anti-Semitic hatred and intimidation on campus two months ago too. Garber’s too old (nearly 70) to take the job on a more permanent basis, but this has the feel of a choice designed to douse fires of outrage for a while to allow the board to decide its next recruitment strategy. — Ed]