The secretive board called the Harvard Corporation that decided to retain Harvard president Claudine Gay after revelations about her repeated plagiarism had surfaced and she had made controversial statements about anti-Semitism on campus is facing increased pressure to address the problem more actively.
Two of the board members, nonprofit founder Tracy Palandjian and the private-equity executive Paul Finnegan, met with academics demanding they do more to counter the damage done to the school’s image after a growing number of donors said they were through with the school.
“You need to be more out front of this,” Jeff Flier, the former dean of Harvard Medical School, said he told the board members, according to The New York Times. “If people are saying the university is making mistakes — they are talking about you!”
Palandjian reportedly said replacing Gay was not enough, that…
