Harvard University’s highest governing body, the Harvard Corporation, is defending Claudine Gay’s leadership capabilities in the face of national pressure for her to resign following her congressional testimony on campus antisemitism last week.  

After a meeting on Monday, the board has voted to keep Ms. Gay as the university’s 30th president. In a unanimous decision announced over email to members of the Harvard community on Tuesday morning, the board asserted that “our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.”