Harvard president Claudine Gay smiling with hands clasped
Harvard president Claudine Gay
  • The Harvard community is rallying around its president amid calls for her resignation.
  • Claudine Gay faces backlash over comments she made to Congress about antisemitism on campus.
  • Penn president Elizabeth Magill resigned after critics seized upon her comments in the same hearing.

Hundreds of members of Harvard's faculty, as well as the university's alumni association, are circling their wagons around the school's president, Claudine Gay, as she faces mounting criticism and calls to resign over comments she made to Congress about antisemitism on campus.