Who Could Fix Harvard? Change of Leadership Would Have To Go Beyond President Gay

Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine, Senator Romney, Governor Baker, Senator Sasse, or Kerry Healey could help.

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Claudine Gay on May 25, 2023, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. AP/Steven Senne

If Harvard University’s governing corporation decides to replace President Gay, or if Ms. Gay herself decides the honorable move is to resign, who might take over? My own view, as someone who warned publicly and emphatically in December of 2022 and in May of 2022 about the antisemitism at Harvard, is that any genuine change of leadership would have to extend beyond Ms. Gay.

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