CNN: Harvard President Claudine Gay Announces Resignation

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EGAN: “Yeah, Brianna, I think that’s right. It’s all connected. Now, Claudine Gay is announcing here that she is stepping down. She described this decision as ‘difficult beyond words,’ and she used deeply personal terms to describe the past few months. Let me read what she said in that statement to the community. She said: ‘It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitment to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor — two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am — and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.’ Now, this stunning development comes just three weeks after Harvard’s top board announced its unanimous support for Gay. Now that board, the Harvard Corporation, has accepted the resignation of Gay, who, we should note, is the first black president in Harvard’s nearly 400-year history.”