#harvard president

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Watch "Harvard president Claudine Gay rejects punishing students behind anti-Israel letter" on YouTube

[gamer2002]

Claudine Gay got the honor to be the first Black Harvard Presidents, and she represents all Black people with her:

Laziness, in form of her entire Academic publication being 11 articles and one book she has co-edited.

Thievery, in form of her plagiarism.

Stupidity, in form of her getting easily caught for the above under the slightest scrutiny.

Perhaps Black people would be better off without being represented by her and with patiently waiting for the first Black Harvard President to emerge through a color-blinded meritocracy.

I recommend to rethink the circling wagons around her and choosing to be represented by her. She is a gift for racists.

[leclercskiesahead]

Beautiful thinker

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[deadpresidents]

"That's the kind of man I could have been if I hadn't had a Harvard education."

-- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on Lyndon B. Johnson, then a young Congressman whose energy, ambition, and drive impressed FDR.

[cyarskaren52]

Ditto! You read it right & I agree with you!

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[realpontchartrain]

YOU KEEP APPEARING IN MY DREAMS CAUSE NOW I HAD A DREAM YOU WERE MY NEIGHBOR IN MY COLLEGE DORM

OH HELL YEAH LMFAO

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik had a sharp response to the news that University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill was stepping down from her position over the weekend: “One down. Two to go.”

It was Stefanik’s line of questioning at a hearing last week before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce that attracted the most attention from the roughly five hours of testimony. A series of exchanges went viral when Magill and other university presidents at Harvard and MIT failed to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews as explicitly against campus rules on harassment and bullying. The answers from such high-profile leaders in higher education sparked bipartisan backlash and condemnation, which led to Magill’s departure and increasing pressure to oust both Harvard’s President Claudine Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth.

Stefanik, a Harvard graduate herself, has been leading the charge since the hearing to highlight and investigate campus antisemitism, and her efforts have attracted supporters from across the aisle as well as former President Donald Trump.

In a new statement Monday, Stefanik again called out MIT and Harvard, saying, “The leadership at these universities is totally unfit and untenable.”

“As clear evidence of the vastness of the moral rot at every level of these schools, this earthquake has revealed that Harvard and MIT are totally unable to grasp this grave question of moral clarity at this historic moment as the world is watching in horror and disgust,” Stefanik said in the statement. “It is pathetic and abhorrent.”

Stefanik announced late last week the committee was launching an investigation into Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. While the investigation became public before news of Magill’s resignation broke, the New York congresswoman’s statements since then have made clear she’s not finished with the issue.

“This forced resignation of the President of Penn is the bare minimum of what is required,” Stefanik said in a statement over the weekend. “These universities can anticipate a robust and comprehensive Congressional investigation of all facets of their institutions’ negligent perpetration of antisemitism including administrative, faculty, and overall leadership and governance.”

Former Penn board chair Scott Bok also resigned Saturday.

Trump praised Stefanik as “very smart” over the weekend.

“I guess they’re all gonna be losing their jobs within the next day or two, but one down, two to go,” Trump said in a speech hosted by the New York Young Republican Club late Saturday night – repeating Stefanik’s line hours after she put her statement out.

Stefanik has a polarizing reputation on Capitol Hill as a staunch supporter of Trump. But the congresswoman has managed to amass Democratic support for pushing for the ouster of university presidents. She co-wrote a letter dated Friday with Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida demanding those presidents’ removal. The letter was also signed by Democrats Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and Joe Courtney of Connecticut.

“I am proud to lead a bipartisan letter with @RepMoskowitz and 72 of our colleagues to the members of the Governing Boards of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn demanding that their presidents be removed after this week’s @EdWorkforceCmte hearing,” Stefanik tweeted Friday.

Gay has since apologized for her remarks, in an interview with The Harvard Crimson on Thursday.

“I got caught up in what had become at that point, an extended, combative exchange about policies and procedures,” Gay told the student newspaper. “What I should have had the presence of mind to do in that moment was return to my guiding truth, which is that calls for violence against our Jewish community — threats to our Jewish students — have no place at Harvard, and will never go unchallenged.”

“I am sorry,” she said. “Words matter.”

The Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation, MIT’s governing board, issued a statement last week saying President Sally Kornbluth has their “full and unreserved support.”

Stefanik, who was first elected in 2014, replaced then-Rep. Liz Cheney as GOP conference chairwoman in May 2021. While she voted against one of Trump signature legislative victories – his 2017 tax plan – she attracted significant attention for her impassioned defense of Trump around the former president’s first impeachment investigation in 2019.

While she’s been one of the most visible messengers for the House GOP Conference, she was not one of the many Republicans to throw themselves in for nomination to be the next House Speaker, after Kevin McCarthy was ousted earlier this fall.

Since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the Department of Education has opened an unprecedented number of investigations into alleged incidents of hate on college campuses.

Both Harvard and Penn, along with 11 other colleges and five K-12 school districts, have come under investigation since that time. The Department of Education has told CNN that the situation is becoming untenable for the Office for Civil Rights, and that it doesn’t have the investigative staff to match the influx of cases, shining a light on where the investigation Stefanik announced last week may be able to fill in those gaps.

[fdrsamericanflagduckfloaty]

deprived of fresh blorbo content as we speak

random as hell but i did the math (likely wrong but we ball) and found out that every 17.9 (round up its 18 btw) The Alienist fics, my blorbo is in one. 18:1. And the book literally opens up with his death in 1919

What the fuck do I have to do to get more content that is NOT one mention in 50k words because most fics with him tagged is just a simple passing mention. so technically that's probably 24:1 or 28:1. I know I'm complaining but he did NOT get the first few pages of the book all to himself just for that

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US Supreme Court ends affirmative action, drawing protests from students and civil rights groups

An end to affirmative action in college admissions, sets of a wave of emotion on both sides of the issue.

Highest court rules against affirmative action initiatives at Harvard and the University of North Carolina Protesters for and against the Supreme court’s decision to end affirmative action programsat Harvard University and the University of North Carolina rally in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June, 29. By Toni Mitchell eXpress News&Views— In a divided ruling on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme…

[xiomaro]

My essay about photographing President Theodore Roosevelt’s summer White House and the exhibit at Harvard University can be downloaded from the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University: https://tinyurl.com/4t6w7kbs

[sharkspez]

🇺🇸 American Candidate: Joe Biden 🫏

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[mynamesjameslynx1412]

if benny shapiro went to harvard then how hard can it be for me?

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Harvard University President, Gay Succumbs To Pressure, Resigns Amid Plagiarism Claims

  Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned from his position amid allegations of plagiarism.   According to Reuters, Gay’s resignation was announced by the Harvard Crimson student newspaper   Gay’s resignation made the shortest in Harvard’s history and the second Ivy League leader to resign after controversy over their congressional testimony last month about antisemitism on…