UPenn s President Resigned. What Does it Mean for Harvard President Claudine Gay? | News | The Harvard Crimson
The fallout from the testimony was swift. Magill resigned on Saturday amid the backlash. And Gay, who had previously only faced a few isolated calls to resign, faced dozens of additional calls for her resignation as the exchange with Stefanik went viral.
Gay said in an interview with The Crimson on Thursday that she has the support of Penny S. Pritzker 81, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation the University s highest governing body.
But Pritzker has remained silent.
A Harvard spokesperson did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Saturday about whether Pritzker and the Harvard Corporation still have confidence in Gay.
The silence from the Corporation stands in stark contrast to the responses from MIT and the University of Pennsylvania following the hearing.
Members of the University of Pennsylvania s Board of Trustees pressured Magill to resign, as the board held an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss Magill s tenure.
Meanwhile, the executive committee of the MIT Corporation the school s governing board released a statement Thursday evening declaring their full and unreserved support for Kornbluth.
At Harvard nothing.
The lack of any public statement from the Harvard Corporation has left the fate of Gay s presidency uncertain even as external pressure mounts on her to resign.
One down. Two to go, Stefanik wrote in a post on X after Magill announced her resignation.
@Harvard and @MIT, do the right thing, Stefanik added. The world is watching.
They all seem to be such nice people. Kind of people you’d like to have over to dinner. Eesh.