Leiah Beilock News Today

In a Tuesday statement to the Harvard community, Claudine Gay announced her immediate resignation as Harvard’s president. Her departure comes as she continues to face criticism for her responses during a Dec. 5 Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism as well as allegations of plagiarism.

As presidential turnover rates increase across the country, tenure lengths have been decreasing. Salovey told the News that being a university president has become increasingly difficult in recent years.