Claudine Gay, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, speaks during the 368th Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 30, 2019.
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Harvard University President Claudine Gay will resign amid allegations of plagiarism, according to news reports Tuesday.
The Harvard Crimson student newspaper and Boston Globe, citing sources, reported that Gay will step down.
Gay has been under fire for weeks because of how she has handled controversy at Harvard over the war in Gaza, and because of allegations that she failed to properly cite sources in her academic papers.
A spokesman for Harvard, and Gay’s office, did not immediately respond to requests for comment from CNBC.
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