Outgoing Harvard President Claudine Gay may be stepping down from her current position, but she is still likely to stay on the faculty of the Ivy League school that refused to fire her.
Though she announced her resignation as Harvard president on Tuesday, the political science professor indicated how she looked forward to a return to “the scholarship and teaching that are the lifeblood of what we do.”
“Prior to being named president just six months ago, Gay earned $879,079 as a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean in 2021 and $824,068 in 2020, according to records published by the university,” the New York Post reported Tuesday after Gay’s announcement.
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“Her new position was not specified Tuesday, but she is expected to receive a salary comparable with what she previously received — if not higher,” the report continues.
“It was also unclear how much of her presidential salary of roughly $1 million Gay would be entitled to after only serving in the post for six months,” The Post noted. “Her predecessor, Lawrence Bacow, pulled in $1.3 million annually before his departure, according to the Harvard Crimson.”
Gay, who faced six new plagiarism allegations on Monday, had only held the president position since July and seemed to portray herself as the victim in her resignation letter.
“It has been distressing to have doubts cast on my commitments to confronting hate and 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,” she said while making no mention of her own actions that set off the scrutiny of her work and criticism of her comments on Capitol Hill.
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“She’s not fit to be a faculty member,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) told The Post.
“It’s unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work. It’s absurd and everybody know it. Harvard knows it too,” the chair of the House GOP Conference added.
“Gay’s getting off easy,” an anonymous member of Harvard’s student Honor Council told the school newspaper.
Some feel that Harvard’s governing board should also be held accountable after defending Gay and not calling for her ouster.
“We need multiple new independent members on the Harvard Corporation that are not tainted by recent events and failures, and who are not part of the long-standing cronyism at the top of Harvard,” Chemistry scholar Frank Laukien reportedly said in an email.
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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