The following assertion was issued this morning by the governing boards of Harvard University.
Statement from the Harvard Corporation: Our President
Dear Members of the Harvard Community,
As members of the Harvard Corporation, we at this time reaffirm our help for President Gay’s continued management of Harvard University. Our in depth deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the fitting chief to assist our neighborhood heal and to deal with the very critical societal points we face.
So many individuals have suffered super harm and ache due to Hamas’s brutal terrorist assault, and the University’s preliminary assertion ought to have been an instantaneous, direct, and unequivocal condemnation. Calls for genocide are despicable and opposite to basic human values. President Gay has apologized for a way she dealt with her congressional testimony and has dedicated to redoubling the University’s battle in opposition to antisemitism.
With regard to President Gay’s tutorial writings, the University turned conscious in late October of allegations relating to three articles. At President Gay’s request, the Fellows promptly initiated an unbiased assessment by distinguished political scientists and performed a assessment of her printed work. On December 9, the Fellows reviewed the outcomes, which revealed a couple of situations of insufficient quotation. While the evaluation discovered no violation of Harvard’s requirements for analysis misconduct, President Gay is proactively requesting 4 corrections in two articles to insert citations and citation marks that had been omitted from the unique publications.
In this tumultuous and tough time, we unanimously stand in help of President Gay. At Harvard, we champion open discourse and tutorial freedom, and we’re united in our sturdy perception that requires violence in opposition to our college students and disruptions of the classroom expertise is not going to be tolerated. Harvard’s mission is advancing information, analysis, and discovery that can assist handle deep societal points and promote constructive discourse, and we’re assured that President Gay will lead Harvard ahead towards carrying out this important work.
The Fellows of Harvard College
Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow
Timothy R. Barakett, Treasurer
Kenneth I. Chenault
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Paul J. Finnegan
Biddy Martin
Karen Gordon Mills
Diana L. Nelson
Tracy P. Palandjian
Shirley M. Tilghman
Theodore V. Wells, Jr.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”