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...Harvard University’s board has given Claudine Gay its full backing to remain as president after her Congressional testimony on campus antisemitism stirred a furious backlash and a movement to oust her....
...Harvard has a 12-strong corporation and a broader board of 32 overseers. Board members sometimes come from a narrow range of fields and many do not have academic backgrounds....
...Harvard’s board also said on Tuesday that the university had launched an “independent review” of Gay’s published work in late October, “which revealed a few instances of inadequate citation”....
...Marjorie Hass, the former head of Rhodes College who now runs the Council of Independent Colleges, pointed to the magnifying effect of social media....
...Across the board we have generations of eager, able young people struggling to pay the bills and make their contribution....
...The board only learned of the terms and Portnoy’s involvement as a pitchman “days prior to the launch”....
...Members of the men’s varsity basketball team voted 13-2 in favour of forming a union, according to the US National Labor Relations Board....
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...They were tested again last week when three presidents of elite US universities — the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and MIT — appeared before a House committee examining antisemitism on campuses in...
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...Wexner, who has a building named after him at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, said in an email to the university’s board of overseers that his foundation was “formally ending its financial and programmatic...
...Institutions with large endowments and strong demand, such as Harvard and Yale, will be fine. Most issued long-dated 30-year fixed rate bonds. Smaller, less prestigious private colleges will struggle....
...After an emergency meeting, the university’s board issued a statement that month saying she enjoyed its unanimous backing....
...Pressure mounted on the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after 74 members of Congress — mostly Republicans — signed a letter urging their...
...actions in federal courts against New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and Columbia....
...The congressional Republicans who spearheaded investigations into antisemitism on US college campuses are turning their focus on the Qatari government, one of the largest donors to American universities...
...The Wharton Board of Advisors, an alumni body chaired by Rowan, in December proposed a code of conduct that sought to further regulate speech at Penn....
...In turn, boards need to be more effective advisers and overseers of a company’s risk profile — from stress testing and scenario planning to understanding how risks intertwine....
...The presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday sought to contain the damage from congressional testimony a day earlier in which they struggled to say whether calls on their campuses...
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