Harvard’s governing board is facing calls from faculty to resign over its response to President Claudine Gay’s plagiarism scandal and its handling of congressional hearings on antisemitism.
Faculty members have called on the Harvard Corporation, the university’s board, to resign or apologize — and a professor has suggested that state lawmakers should appoint a chair to represent the public, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“They’re under pressure, that’s clear,” former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier told the paper. “They are a fiduciary body and no one will deny that Harvard’s reputation has taken a huge hit in the world.
“It was on their watch that it happened,” he added.
Kit Parker, professor of bioengineering and applied physics, said the university’s future was in jeopardy and board members needed to step down.
“The big question now is, how arrogant is Harvard? And when I say Harvard, I mean the Harvard Corporation. Do they think this will go away?” Parker told the paper.
Struggling Claudine Gay hasn’t said much publicly about the accusations of plagiarism swirling around her. REUTERS Elise Stefanik’s line of questioning of Claudine Gay and others ended up sparking a firestorm for the institution’s president. Reuters
Another professor has called on Massachusetts lawmakers to appoint a government official to the board to represent the public interest. It would fall under a clause in the state constitution that reserves power over Harvard to the state legislature, the newspaper reported.
The firestorm surrounding Gay began with his hearing before the House Education Committee earlier this month where he dodged whether antisemitic chants violated the campus code of conduct.
As he faced pressure to resign over his testimony, it was revealed that the Harvard Corporation had investigated Gay for plagiarism and the university issued corrections to two academic journals, to acknowledge where his work actually came from.
Harvard University is generally one of the second-highest ranked institutions in the country. David McGlynn
The Washington Free Beacon later published a story, highlighting additional incidents of possible plagiarism.
“I stand by the integrity of my scholarship. Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure that my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards,” Gay told The Boston Globe in response.
Harvard spokesman Jonathan Swain responded to a request for comment on the response from faculty to the corporation by referring to Gay’s Dec. 12 statement of “unanimous support.”
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