With the increasing allegations of plagiarism about Harvard President Claid Gaydi Paper Paper, she gradually disappeared the support of her instructor, students and alumni, and she announced on Tuesday.However, for many Gay critics, her resignation also means that they have achieved an indirect victory in an increasing ideological struggle around the US higher education.
Gaila's dismissal is the "major fruit" of the "Civilized Battle". The conservative talk show host and writer Josh Homelr wrote on the social media platform X.
"DEI (Diversity, Fairness, and Common Rong's Note), Awakening, Anti -Semitism, and University of University Elist," conservative commentators Liz Waller wrote.
"This marks the beginning of DEI in the US system," said Conservative activist Christopher Rouver, saying that he was one of the people who had publicized plagiarism and accusations.
Before last month, the efforts of re -resting higher education under conservative ideas still mainly appeared in public universities in the rightist (such as Florida and Texas). Republican members of these places and state government officials would use legislation and administrative administration.Power prohibit the set up of diversity of specialist diversity and establish a right -wing academic center to require changes to the curriculum.
However, Gay's resignation on Tuesday made their movements a great victory in the most prominent private university in the United States, although the school has refused to make changes to the leadership for several weeks.
"I think there are major problems in higher education, and Harvard is a representative of many of them," said John D. Sales, a senior researcher at the National Association of Conservative Education Non -profit Institutions."The problem is so big that it has been exposed, and the suspicion of the top educational model today is increasing. I think this has provided a lot of help for the reform."
People who defended Gay also thought so, they said that her resignation would encourage conservatives to increase intervention in university and endanger academic freedom.(However, some experts have not evaluated the freedom of speech on Gayi Harvard campus itself.)
"This is a bad moment," Harvard Kennedy College History, Race and Public Policy Professor Karim Giblan Momad said."Republican Congress leaders declared war on the independence of the college and university, and Governor De Santis did the same in Florida. Gay's resignation will only make them even more mad."
Less than a month ago, Gay, the president of the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Pennsylvania, testified at the Capitolic Campus Anti -Semitic Questions Hearing, and used lawyers' words to maintain the rights of students who had anti -Semitic speeches. As a result, they caused national anger.Some Jewish students, teachers and donors also believed that Gay's response to Hamas's attack on Israel was too cautious on October 7, nor did he respond properly on the dissatisfaction caused by the anti -Semitic problem on campus.
Three principals attending the hearing have left.(The other is President M. Elizabeth Magil, who resigned after four days of hearing in Congress.)
On Tuesday, Gay's opponents have given themselves to themselves, and some praise them how effective they are.The New York State Republican member Alice Stephenic, who had attended Harvard, said in a statement that at the hearing last month, she questioned Gay's questioning "the most hearing in the history of the United States Congress will be included in the history of the hearing."She promised that Republican Members would "continue to expose the decay of our most 'prestigious" higher education institutions. "
Before the hearing, conservative activities and the media have begun to examine Gai's highly praised but relatively rare academic output, which in turn prompts mainstream news media to make further investigations.
The crusade sounded almost immediately after the hearing. Lushawen said that he had obtained an anonymous file, which involved the problem of plagiarizing other scholars in the papers in the publishing papers. In addition, Washington Free BeaconAlso reported.
The media gave more plagiarism in a follow -up report on Monday night.It is reported that nearly half of her published papers are suspected of plagiarism.
But at the same time, Gay -a scholar who studies black politics, the leader of the Harvard campus "race justice" -also become the overall party elite academic community as a wholeOne of the representatives of criticism, they believe that this group is narrow and lacks strict standards in intelligence, and emphasizes too much attention.
For Gay, who has been studying in Princeton and Harvard, and then turned to administrative work, the opponent's view is that she is not qualified to hold the position just obtained this six months ago, and her supporters believe that this is a racistview.
"At first they chose Claid Gayi, because of racial and gender considerations that were almost unavailable," Entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate Vevek Lamaswami said on Tues on Tuesday."I have a violence for what to do in the future: don't try*choose the best*hire leaders."
In Harvard's declaration of Gay's announcement, he did not mention any inappropriate behavior in Gay at all; Gay's resignation letter mentioned that she made a resignation decision after "asking for opinions from the members of the council" and made a decision.But there is no further explanation.Some Harvard teachers and alumni thus concluded that the school was only bowing to the activists and the power of donors.
"In the face of amazing results through confusion and stress, such a great university could not defend myself, I was very sad," Legalist and Harvard's most famous black teacher LangdeEr Kennedy said in a text message.
Like other heavyweight research universities, Harvard has received a lot of federal funding and other sources of funding. This weakness may be used by Republican members in the future.
Whether the resignation of the president of one or two universities will trigger the overall reshaping of higher education. It is unknown.With the relief of the new crown epidemic, Republican officials and educational activists have found that some issues are difficult to arouse the interest of voters, such as restricting the accessibility of books with explicit content, or those who initiated "awakening" and "equal rights".Often tone of unknown attacks.
Two Republican presidential candidates have expressed sharp opposition to higher education institutions.Essence
Some actions have been widely supported by the right of political rights. For example, it is forbidden to ask for job seekers to make a statement on diversity, or make a commitment to specific races and justice concepts.
But take more intense measures to request -or prohibit — the specific concept of the professor is not so attractive, which prompts the rightist activists to focus on other fields, such as canceling DEI -related lifelong teaching positionsProtection and administrative projects.
"If the goal of Rufo is to pull the public into his teachings to higher educationIn the war of education, then he has not succeeded, "Jeffrey Sax, who studied academic speech policies in Akadia University, New Scotia University in Canada, said." The public, including most Republicans, does not want the governmentLet's decide what the university class is taught in the United States.This will not change this when there is a specific proposal for review."
Dana Goldstein and Annie Karni have contributed to this article.
