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Beleaguered former president will also teach class on the politics of race
Harvard University’s shortest-tenured president will teach a class on how to run universities.
Former President Claudine Gay will also teach a class on the “politics of race” and “ethnicity.”
“Her fall course — GOV 94HE: ‘What is a University?: Purpose and Politics in Higher Education’ — is a selective tutorial capped at 16 students,” The Crimson reported. “It will trace the evolution of American higher education before turning to present-day disputes over ‘curriculum, admissions, research, preservation, and governance.’”
The course uses Harvard as a case study and will “engage [students] in critical thinking about their own institution and to understand the background political, social, and market pressures that influence their college experience,” the student newspaper reported.
Gay resigned in 2023 after apathetic responses New York Republican Representative Elise Stefanik’s questions during a Congressional hearing about campus antisemitism as well as serious allegations of plagiarism. She served as president for just six months.
The former university leader will also co-teach a class on “racial domination and contestation” and another class on “African American Politics.”
Gay is no stranger to identity politics, blaming the backlash against her on “racial animus.”
She stated in her resignation letter:
My deep sense of connection to Harvard and its people has made it all the more painful to witness the tensions and divisions that have riven our community in recent months, weakening the bonds of trust and reciprocity that should be our sources of strength and support in times of crisis.
Amidst all of this, it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor—two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am—and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.
The university never fired her as a professor. After the plagiarism scandal, Harvard assigned her a class on “reading and research,” as The College Fix previously reported.
She is teaching the class again next year, according to the school’s course catalog.
