From the Harvard Crimson: In a rare address two years after her resignation, former University President Claudine Gay issued a blistering rebuke of Harvard in Amsterdam on Sept. 3, accusing her successor of surrendering to Donald Trump. Gay, the University’s shortest-serving president, warned in an address at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study that Harvard was adopting a stance of “compliance,” according to a recording shared with The Crimson.
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 has been engaged for months in a legal back-and-forth with the Trump administration over federal funding and international enrollment. Though Garber rejected Trump’s demands to influence faculty hiring and curriculum in April, he soon went back to the negotiating table. And Harvard has taken steps that mirror the administration’s demands since the spring — such as closing its diversity offices and shaking up leadership at programs studying the Middle East.
...Gay’s own tenure was filled with unprecedented pressure from Washington. International backlash over Harvard’s response to Hamas’s attack on Israel and a student group statement placing blame on Israel created a perfect storm for a leadership crisis. She resigned in January 2024 after stumbling during questioning by a congressional committee and facing allegations of plagiarism in her scholarship...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/19/former-president-blasts-compliance/.
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