The Harvard Crimson is reporting that Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain in office with the support of the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — following the conclusion of the board’s meeting on Monday.
The resolution comes after the board left Gay’s fate stuck in limbo as the Corporation maintained its deafening silence for nearly a week, while Gay faced enormous backlash and calls to resign over her testimony in a congressional hearing about antisemitism on college campuses.
Gay’s position at the helm of Harvard grew increasingly more tenuous over the weekend as the Corporation was slow to show support for the University’s embattled president. Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker ’81 did not answer questions from a reporter on Sunday about whether she would ask Gay to resign from office.
The decision to allow Gay to stay on in her role as president comes following an outpouring of support for Gay from faculty and alumni after University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill resigned on Saturday.