Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation over plagiarism will be “just the beginning of the reckoning,” House Republican conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik told The Post on Tuesday, promising that Republicans will carry out a “long overdue” cleanup of higher education’s “institutional rot.”
“The Harvard Corporation should have forced this resignation immediately after the congressional hearing just a month ago, but they failed and it became clear … that his presidency was unsustainable,” said Stefanik, a 2006 graduate of Harvard University.
Stefanik (R-NY) added that the Harvard president, who announced in a statement that she was resigning from her leadership position but would remain on the Ivy League school’s faculty, had been an “embarrassment” during her short tenure. “Whether it was its failure to protect Jewish students or the simple destruction of academic integrity in the university’s attempt to cover up its nearly 50 cases of plagiarism.”
“I am a Harvard graduate; It was previously the most prestigious institution of higher education in the world. That already happened,” Stefanik continued.
Last month, Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee launched an investigation of Harvard and other elite universities for their handling of recent anti-Semitic incidents on campus following the disastrous testimony of Gay, the then-president of Penn, Liz Magill, and MIT President Sally Kornbluth.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (New York) said the resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay over plagiarism allegations was “just the beginning of the reckoning.” CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images House Republicans will now carry out a “long-awaited” cleanup of the “institutional rot” of Ivy League higher education, Stefanik said. REUTERS
Stefanik said the effort would “continue apace.”
“Billions of taxpayer dollars go to these institutions,” he said. “And not only are there Jewish students who are being physically assaulted and harassed on campus, but there are also many in these DEI offices. [diversity, equity and inclusion] who are anti-Semitic by definition.
“And I believe the investigation will uncover what will be the biggest scandal in the history of colleges and universities.”
Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns
Claudine Gay resigned on January 2. AP
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The anti-Semitism investigation and another investigation into what Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) has called “credible allegations of plagiarism” against Gay have already begun with requests for internal documents and threats of citations if universities do not comply.
“I am a Harvard graduate; It was previously the most prestigious institution of higher education in the world. That’s over,” Stefanik said. David McGlynn “I am working with President Virginia Foxx. “We are absolutely focused on document requests and will not hesitate to use subpoenas,” Stefanik said of the House panel’s university investigation. AP
Stefanik noted that “hundreds of Jewish students” had contacted Harvard’s DEI office about “the rise in anti-Semitic slurs” and “anti-Semitic acts on campus,” but had not received a response.
“I am working with President Virginia Foxx. “We are absolutely focused on document requests and will not hesitate to use subpoenas,” she said.
“They can’t live by a different set of rules because they happen to be on the board of Harvard. “They have to answer to the United States Congress by law, and especially because billions of dollars of American taxpayers go to fund these institutions.”
“This is just the beginning of the reckoning. This is something that should have been done a long time ago,” she added.
“This is just the beginning of the reckoning. This should have been done a long time ago,” Stefanik said of the House Education and Workforce Committee’s investigation into campus anti-Semitism and Gay’s plagiarism. REUTERS
Stefanik made headlines on Dec. 5 when she questioned Gay, Magill and Kornbluth during a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing about incidents of anti-Semitic harassment on their campuses.
In an exchange that has since been viewed millions of times, Stefanik asked each of them whether the anti-Israel students who called for the genocide of Jews following the Hamas attack on October 7 violated their universities’ codes of conduct related to intimidation and harassment.
Gay and the others refused to give a yes or no answer to the question, emphasizing that the speech would depend on “context” and would only justify action if it rose to the level of bullying, harassment and intimidation.
Gay, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, and MIT President Sally Kornbluth refused to give a yes or no answer to the question of whether students could call for the genocide of the Jews. fake images
Magill resigned on December 9, four days after the disastrous testimony, but Gay survived the initial setback. However, her tenure as president of Harvard could not survive a second scandal, this time involving her quoting other academics without attribution to her academic work dating back to her doctoral dissertation.
“Like I said, after the president of Penn resigned, ‘One down, two to go.’ Now we’re at ‘Two down, one to go,’” Stefanik said. “They have lost their moral clarity by now infamously offering the most morally bankrupt testimony in the history of Congress.”
That “moral bankruptcy,” he charged, went straight to the top of Harvard, where the university’s governing body decided to retain Gay, reportedly under pressure to do so from high-profile figures such as former President Barack Obama, a graduate of from Harvard Law in 1991.
“Not only did they allow it to rot, they covered it up. And it is a fiduciary responsibility when you work on these governing boards of these institutions,” Stefanik said.
“What’s also concerning is that the executive search for Harvard’s president was the shortest to date when they selected Claudine Gay,” Stefanik also said. TNS
“And in the case of Harvard, we now know that the Harvard Corporation was aware of credible allegations of plagiarism and instead of addressing that, they threatened to sue a media outlet,” he said, referring to threats The Post received from lawyers hired by the university after comments were sought on allegations that Gay had stolen the work of other academics.
“What’s also concerning is that the executive search for Harvard’s president was the shortest ever when they selected Claudine Gay. And the person who led that was Penny Pritzker, a former Obama Cabinet official,” Stefanik continued. “We also know that Obama himself called to pressure the Harvard Corporation to keep Claudine Gay.
“The radical leftists on these boards made this political, and what they did was completely destroy their academic integrity and completely destroy their moral leadership and their brand around the world.”
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