Education
GOP’s Stefanik, Bill Ackman React to Harvard President’s Resignation
Claudine Gay
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The decision by Harvard University President Claudine Gay to step down was “long overdue,” said one of her harshest critics in Congress, US Representative Elise Stefanik.
In response to questioning by the New York Republican at a House hearing last month, Gay and her counterparts from the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave widely derided testimony in which they failed to condemn calls for genocide against Jews as a violation of university policy.