Harvard University’s embattled president resigned Tuesday, but it would be a mistake to think that the troubles of that school or higher education in general are over.
Harvard President Claudine Gay’s disastrous testimony and serial, blatant plagiarism were certainly good reasons to give her the boot. The Harvard Corporation Board, which decides who will be president of the school, never took that route.
Instead, Gay bowed out on her own and wrote a letter demonstrating no contrition for her embarrassing Dec. 5 congressional testimony about antisemitism on college campuses. She even insinuated that the reason she was getting criticized was racism.
“It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor—two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am—and frightening to be subjected to personal…
