Boston Globe, Hilary Burns and Mike Damiano
After meeting for hours Monday, the members of the Harvard Corporation adjourned without giving any public indication about their answer to this question: Do they back Harvard’s president?”
It was the seventh day of silence from the key board members since Gay, as well as the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offered legalistic and equivocal answers at a congressional hearing to questions about whether calls for the genocide of Jews would violate their schools’ rules, prompting an intense backlash from alumni, donors, and politicians.
The UPenn president, Liz Magill, resigned on Saturday after facing a donor revolt and criticism from Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor.
The MIT president, Sally Kornbluth, received a vote of confidence last Thursday from the executive committee of the school’s governing board, which said Kornbluth had the committee’s “full and unreserved support.”