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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....
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...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”....
...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...
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...Across the board we have generations of eager, able young people struggling to pay the bills and make their contribution....
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...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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...Harvard’s board has given Claudine Gay its full backing to remain as the university’s president after her congressional testimony on campus antisemitism stirred furious backlash and a movement to oust her...
...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...
...The move was widely seen as a landmark shift in corporate power from management to the board....
...While official estimates place annual average GDP growth between 2011-12 and 2016-17 at about 7 per cent, a Harvard study suggested it could be closer to 4.5 per cent....
...“They don’t realise they are not explaining themselves or taking people along with them,” says Harvard Business School professor Linda Hill, one of the world’s top experts on leadership....
...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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