The President of Harvard University Claudine Gay tendered her resignation on Tuesday following criticism over her handling of anti-semitism on campus and allegations of plagiarism, the school newspaper reports.
Gay faced great criticism recently after reports showed up, alleging that her academic work had used materials whose scholarly sources were poorly cited.
The quit by the Harvard University president makes her tenure the shortest in the history of the school.
The most recent charges surfaced on Tuesday and were posted anonymously in a conservative web publication.
Gay was also embroiled in controversy last month when she refused to state unequivocally whether or not advocating for the extermination of Jews was against Harvard’s code of conduct when she testified before Congress with the presidents of MIT and Pennsylvania.
The Harvard University president was backed by the school’s Corporation after her appearance before Congress but frowned at her reaction to the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, last year.
This was as the response of the campus community to the war in Gaza grew.
In addition to some prominent Harvard alums and contributors, more than 70 lawmakers—including two Democrats—called for her resignation.
However, 700 Harvard faculty members have signed a letter endorsing Gay.
A request for comment was not immediately answered by the 368-year-old university located in Cambridge, west of Boston.
Gay, 53, was born in New York to Haitian immigrants. She is a political science professor and was elected as Harvard University’s first Black president in July.
