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CRITICISM OF HARVARD’S PRESIDENT IS GROWING. SOME SEE RACE AS A FACTOR.

By Hannah Natanson
, 
Jack Stripling
and 
Susan Svrluga
December 15, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. EST

Harvard University President Claudine Gay during a Dec. 5 congressional hearing
that fueled questions about her academic qualifications and a debate over
whether race is a factor in those questions. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters)

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Not long after Harvard President Claudine Gay testified before Congress about
antisemitism, spurring widespread outrage and calls for her resignation, someone
sent Monica Clark a social media post.

Clark, who is president of the Harvard Black Alumni Society, opened the message
and read the words of Bill Ackman, a fellow alum and billionaire hedge fund
manager. Ackman wrote that he had inside information that Harvard chose Gay, who
in July became the first Black person and second woman to lead the nearly
400-year-old school, partly because a selection committee would not consider
anyone “who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria.” It is “not good,” he wrote
on X, formerly Twitter, “for those awarded the office of president who find
themselves in a role that they would likely not have obtained were it not for a
fat finger on the scale.”


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