The 53-year-old Dr. Gay issued an apology after facing criticism for not explicitly stating whether students advocating for the genocide of Jewish people would face disciplinary action.
The Harvard Corporation is set to convene on Monday, where the fate of Dr. Gay may be determined.
The controversial remarks were made during a House of Representatives hearing, where Dr. Gay, alongside Elizabeth Magill and Sally Kornbluth from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, respectively, faced scrutiny for their responses.
Several hundred faculty members at Harvard University on Sunday signed a petition asking school administrators to not bend to political pressure to fire the school’s president over her Congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus.
A concisely worded petition was signed by at least 570 professors and was delivered Sunday evening to the 13-member Harvard Corporation, which has the power to fire university president Claudine Gay. More professors indicated they also wanted to sign, according to a co-author of the petition.Pressure has hiked on Gay over the weekend, after University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned on Saturday.Gay, Magill and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee last week about a rise in antisemitism on college campuses following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October.
The trio declined to give a definitive “yes” or “no” answer to Republican Representative Elise Stefanik’s question of whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their schools’ codes of conduct regarding bullying and harassment, saying they had to balance it against free speech protections.
More than 70 US. lawmakers signed onto a letter demanding that the governing boards of the three universities remove the presidents, citing dissatisfaction with their testimony.
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