Harvard president resigns amid criticism for plagiarism and failure to address anti-Semitism on campus

President of Harvard University, Claudia KHe resigned on Tuesday amid criticism and accusations of plagiarism over testimony at a congressional hearing. Genocide of the Jews Violates the University's Code of Conduct.

Kay announced her departure a few months into her tenure in a letter to the Harvard community.

He and the presidents of MIT and the University of Pennsylvania came under fire last month for their legal responses to a series of questions from a New York representative. Elise Stefanik, who asked whether “calling for the genocide of the Jews” violated universities' codes of conduct. Three presidents have been called before the Republican-led House Education and Workforce Committee to answer the allegations against the universities. Failed to protect Jewish students amid growing fears of anti-Semitism All over the world.

K said it depends on the context “When speech becomes behavior, it violates our principles.” The response met with swift backlash from Republican and some Democratic lawmakers and the White House. The audience was parodied in the opening sketch of a well-known comedy television show Saturday Night Live.

Kay later apologized and told the student newspaper The Crimson He was embroiled in a heated exchange at a House committee hearing and failed to adequately report threats of violence against Jewish students.

“What I need to do at that point is to return to my guiding truth, and that's it “Calls for violence against our Jewish community (and threats to our Jewish students) have no place at Harvard and will never be answered” K said.

The episode marred Kay's early tenure at Harvard (he became president in July) and sowed discord on the Ivy League campus. On Thursday, Rabbi David Wolfe He resigned from a new committee on anti-Semitism created by Kay

A House committee announced Thursday that it is investigating disciplinary policies and practices at Harvard, MIT and Penn. Separate federal investigations were previously opened Civil Rights at Harvard, Penn and many other universities In response to complaints submitted to the United States Department of Education.

Since 2018, Kay has served as dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the largest at that university center. In 1992, he received his B.Sc Stanford UniversityThere she majored in economics and received the Anna Laura Myers Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis.

In 1998 he received his doctorate in government from Harvard, where he won the Toppen Prize for Best Dissertation in Political Science.

Gay has also received a burglary charge. I planned to deliverThree revisions to his 1997 dissertation After a team investigating theft charges against him discovered what he had done Citation errorsA university spokesperson said.

(With information from AP and EFE)