Glass ceiling shattered! Claudine Gay resigns in disgrace as Harvard’s shortest-serving president
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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In the end, not even former President Barack Obama could save disgraced Harvard University President Claudine Gay. After weeks of defiling the 388-year-old university with scandal after scandal, Gay is set to resign, ending her tenure as Harvard’s shortest-serving president.
Despite Gay’s embarrassingly sparse academic record — compared to the 150 scholarly papers and multiple books published by her predecessor, Larry Summers, Gay published only 11 papers total over the course of her three decades in academia — she was highly sought-after in higher education as a black woman who vociferously championed the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda. As an academic, Gay plagiarized the work of fellow black scholars such as Carol Swain, and as a Harvard administrator, Gay gleefully called for the scalp of Winthrop House Faculty Dean Ronald Sullivan for the law professor’s crime of serving on the defense team of since-convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.
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Having safely kicked the ladder for black success below her, Gay became Harvard’s first black president and second female one on July 1 of last year. Five months and four days later, Gay sat for sworn testimony in front of the United States Congress and proclaimed that calling for the genocide of Jews did not necessarily violate Harvard’s code of conduct. (Recall that under Gay’s tenure, Harvard’s free speech rank fell to dead last, according to the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.)
Unlike the University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill, a white woman who could be safely written off as a “Karen” when needed by the DEI regime, Gay was able to cleave to identity politics to secure her protection — for a time. Even as the fearless reporters over at the Washington Free Beacon and New York Post began to unearth the flagrant intellectual property theft committed by Gay throughout her unimpressive academic career, the board of Harvard closed ranks to protect her. Harvard reportedly threatened to sue the New York Post before it went public with its investigation into Gay’s plagiarism, and Obama reportedly lobbied, personally, to save Gay’s career. The board unanimously voted to stand behind Gay on Dec. 12 of last year.
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Alas, what a difference a new month and a new year make.
“It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor — two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am — and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus,” Gay wrote in her leaked resignation letter. Even when shattering a new glass ceiling as Harvard’s shortest-ever-serving president, Gay manages to portray herself as the victim.