Harvard’s Deepening Disunity Pits Alumni Against Faculty

  • Professors urge board to resist political pressure to oust Gay
  • Bill Ackman has repeatedly attacked Harvard’s president

Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University is fracturing.

More than 700 faculty have signed a petition urging the school’s leadership to resist political pressures “at odds with Harvard’s commitment to academic freedom, including calls for the removal of President Claudine Gay.”