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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who led a campaign criticizing Harvard University as it has been rocked by turmoil over practices related to antisemitism, plagiarism and financial management, on Friday failed in a bid to get four candidates on the ballot for a governing board of the Ivy League school.

One other candidate backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also failed to win a place on the ballot for the Ivy League school’s board of overseers

It’s hard to get into Harvard, even if you’ve done it before. Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta, and Bill Ackman, head of the Pershing Square hedge fund, discovered as much, in their failed push to get dissident candidates onto the Harvard Board of Overseers, one of the university’s two governing bodies. The candidates — a slate of four backed by Ackman and one candidate backed by Zuckerberg — said Friday that they had not collected enough petition signatures to ge...

The candidates — a slate of four backed by Ackman and one candidate backed by Zuckerberg — said Friday that they had not collected enough petition signatures to get on the April ballot for election to the Harvard Board of Overseers, one of the university’s two governing bodies.

A top donor has stopped giving. Palestinian students are pushing for a federal investigation. And angry alums are trying to elbow their way onto a key oversight board.

Longtime Harvard donor Ken Griffin has vowed to withhold financial support for the university unless it undertakes significant changes.

Typically, the Harvard Board of Overseers, consisting of 30 members, is nominated by the university's alumni association.

By Matt Egan, CNN

Mark Zuckerberg has kept relatively mum about antisemitism at Harvard – but he’s expected to break his silence as he endorses Sam Lessin to join a powerful panel.

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