Claudine Gay Likely to Keep $900K Salary Despite Resigning in Disgrace
“will return to a position as a faculty member at the Ivy League institution”
Of course. Was there ever a doubt in anyone’s mind that this would happen?
The FOX Business Network reports:
Claudine Gay to continue as Harvard faculty member, likely to keep $900K salary
The recently-resigned Harvard President Claudine Gay will still likely earn nearly $900,000 a year despite there being numerous plagiarism allegations against her.
Gay, whose resignation will bring an end to the shortest Harvard presidency in the university’s history, will return to a position as a faculty member at the Ivy League institution.
In her resignation on Tuesday afternoon, Gay did not specify her new position as a faculty member.
“I believe in the people of Harvard because I see in you the possibility and the promise of a better future. These last weeks have helped make clear the work we need to do to build that future—to combat bias and hate in all its forms, to create a learning environment in which we respect each other’s dignity and treat one another with compassion, and to affirm our enduring commitment to open inquiry and free expression in the pursuit of truth,” Gay wrote, in part.
“I believe we have within us all that we need to heal from this period of tension and division and to emerge stronger. I had hoped with all my heart to lead us on that journey, in partnership with all of you. As I now return to the faculty, and to the scholarship and teaching that are the lifeblood of what we do, I pledge to continue working alongside you to build the community we all deserve,” Gay said.
Prior to being named president, Gay earned $879,079 as a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean in 2021 and $824,068 in 2020, according to the Ivy League school’s newspaper, the Harvard Crimson.
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Thus does the left punish those of its own who are corrupt, stupid, or merely evil.
It could be the worst possible decision for Harvard.
Claudine Gay remains the face of Harvard. Plagiarism may be the tip of the iceberg as more question the data underlying her seminal papers.
It will likely not be enough either for Harvard donors to resume their gifts.
Maybe Harvard thinks it a signal that they protect their own even in the face of massive scandal and moral depravity, but it will be the most costly decision they could have made.
The Harvard people and the Left aren’t protecting her, they are protecting themselves. Most of them are frauds, and if one gets exposed and punished, then the others are at risk. The best possible outcome is them firing her and her suing. It opens up the possibility of discovery regarding her hiring. She needs to get Raimondo’d to some backwater podunk college, if any of them would even have her. She needs to go and the less quietly, the better.
This situation is no different than the Oberlin trial, where I knew from the beginning that they were incapable of backing down and admitting fault. They still haven’t. The entire Left is a house of cards, with a higher number of Jokers than a standard deck. neither hrvard nor Oberlin will ever acknowledge how much their stupidity has affected them. Oberlin just dropped to 51st in the US News rankings. Not only are they no longer a a national school, they are ranked 3rd, in Ohio! They used to talk about fund raising success, and in the last 4 years it hasn’t been mentioned at all in the mailings that I still receive. My SWAG is that they are pulling numbers close to 50% of what they did in the past.
Every time I see a photo of Claudine, the shape of her iMax glasses seems to have morphed.
I get flashbacks to Marty Feldman:
“Wasn’t your hump on the other side?”
“What hump?”
I just loved his bulging eyes. I remember a skit that I now can’t get out of my mind.
It is a tactic. They get really fugly eyewear to distract from the message. Gay’s are actually better than that worn by the other President in the Clown Posse. It is similar to what Sideshow Bobbette does with her clown hair at the White House news briefings. People are too pre-occupied with the “what was he/she/it thinking?” than to focus on the other BS being spewed. As a resident of Portland, I have learned that those who dye their hair in bright colors pretty much have no other qulaities to get them noticed. I avoid a lot of conversations with that judgement. OTOH, as a well educated straight white male, I have been able to slide by with sweat pants and T-shirts for almost a decade, so hard work in one area has allowed me a lot of slack in another. And the pink hairs don’t talk to me, as well.
L’affair de Gay reminds me of something I heard from a corp-level compensation manager about executive packages. Paraphrasing:
“The compensation isn’t for the job; it’s for the risk. We are asking them to make decisions that could end their careers. They’re paid for that risk, so they’re OK even when things go wrong, or they won’t take the jobs.”
OpportunistsPeople moved into point position for The Movement figureheads — “I’m a symbolism!” — aren’t being paid for the job they are dong. Being on point, they are taking a risk. They have to have a safety net, or they won’t step up and advance the cause.It’s like presidents of a country failing upward after their time advancing the agenda; “fundamentally transforming” a country, for example.
this whole affair says more about harvard than it does about her–that she’s a liar and a fraud was / is evident to many ( if not all ) of the board members–what of harvard’s once / present “standards?”–quite simply, they are no more
she’s another naugahyde poseur only–the latest example of how far a once-exalted institution has fallen / collapsed on the alter of aa /dei/crt, etc
imagine being in an er with her / an airplane cockpit / the bridge of a warship
is one thing to pay dearly (and rightfully) for the best of the best but another thing entirely to pay dearly for a blatant fraud / poseur–the former demonstrates your good judgement / wisdom while the latter reveals you to be ignorant and a fool