Harvard & UPenn Presidents Are Out: Is Harvard’s Corporation Board Next?

The Harvard alum and megadonor who led the charge to oust Harvard President Claudine Gay is heralding her departure…as a good first step.

“Does Campus Anti-Semitism Start At the Top?” we wondered in these very pages on December 7, 2023.

We weren’t the only ones.

After three Ivy League presidents failed to condemn on-campus calls for Jewish genocide as against university policy at a hearing on Capitol Hill in December, plenty of people — including plenty of moneyed alums from the three schools — were left wondering the same thing.

One such was Harvard super-alum, Bill Ackman.

UPenn’s president quickly lost her post after the disastrous hearing. Another — now-former Harvard President Claudine Gay — resigned yesterday, ostensibly due to 50 accusations of plagiarism (and counting) against her.

Some of the incensed alums are seeing these prominent departures as a good sign.

Others are seeing it as a good start.

Including Bill Ackman.

“In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about,” Ackman began on Twitter yesterday. “I first became concerned about…