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The
Harvard Corporation, the university's governing body, was
expected to announce the decision to back Harvard President
Claudine Gay in a statement, the Harvard Crimson reported,
citing an unidentified source familiar with the decision.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. A
representative for Harvard did not respond to a request for
comment on Monday regarding the board's reported meeting.
Some donors, alumni and members of Congress called for Gay to
resign, as her fellow Ivy League president at University of
Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, did over the weekend. But many faculty
and other alumni have rushed to defend Gay and asked the
governing body to do the same.
A House of Representatives hearing last week increased public
outcry over how U.S. colleges are handling campus protests since
Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel after three university presidents
declined to answer "yes" or "no" when asked if calling for the
genocide of Jews would violate school codes of conduct regarding
bullying and harassment.
Gay, Magill and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology told lawmakers context was important and they had
to take free speech into consideration. Gay later apologized for
her remarks in an interview with Harvard's student newspaper.
Jewish communities have said universities are tolerating
antisemitism. Pro-Palestinian groups have accused the schools of
being neutral or antagonistic towards their cause.
(Writing by Susan Heavey; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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