{"id":1777237,"date":"2022-12-16T08:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777237"},"modified":"2022-12-16T08:32:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:32:56","slug":"harvard-university-names-race-and-politics-professor-as-its-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-university-names-race-and-politics-professor-as-its-next-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard University Names \u2018Race And Politics\u2019 Professor As Its Next President"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvard-university-names-race-and-politics-professor-as-its-next-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777237&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/harvard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard<\/a> University government professor Claudine Gay will serve as the prestigious school\u2019s first <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black<\/a> president and second female president.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes six months after current Harvard President Lawrence Bacow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvards-president-to-step-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that he would retire sometime next year. Gay is scheduled to assume the leadership role of the nearly 400-year-old school on July 1, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2022\/12\/harvard-names-claudine-gay-30th-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> from the university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaudine is a remarkable leader who is profoundly devoted to sustaining and enhancing Harvard\u2019s academic excellence, to championing both the value and the values of higher education and research, to expanding opportunity, and to strengthening Harvard as a fount of ideas and a force for good in the world,\u201d said Harvard Corporation senior fellow Penny Pritzker, who served as chair of the school\u2019s presidential search committee. \u201cClaudine has brought to her roles a rare blend of incisiveness and inclusiveness, intellectual range and strategic savvy, institutional ambition and personal humility, a respect for enduring ideals, and a talent for catalyzing change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, has helped implement <a href=\"https:\/\/legacyofslavery.harvard.edu\/report\/recommendations-to-the-president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college#recommendation-6-establish-an-endowed-legacy-of-slavery-fund-to-support-the-universitys-reparative-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommendations<\/a> posited by the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, which includes the creation of a reparative endowment meant to benefit black and indigenous populations, and participated in the launch of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. She is also the founding chair of the school\u2019s Inequality in America Initiative, which <a href=\"https:\/\/inequalityinamerica.fas.harvard.edu\/research-clusters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">includes<\/a> research areas such as the nation\u2019s history regarding \u201csocial justice\u201d and the treatment of \u201cundocumented\u201d immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The academic currently leads the school\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Sciences while serving as a \u201cleading scholar of political behavior, considering issues of race and politics in America,\u201d according to her <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/cgay\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faculty profile<\/a>. She has taught at Harvard University since 2006 and was previously an assistant professor at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many fundamental assumptions about how the world works and how we should relate to one another are being tested,\u201d Gay remarked. \u201cYet Harvard has a long history of rising to meet new challenges, of converting the energy of our time into forces of renewal and reinvention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the most noteworthy facets of Bacow\u2019s tenure was the beginning of efforts to consider the school\u2019s history with slavery. A report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-releases-slavery-report-findings-pledges-100-million-to-right-past-wrongs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> that Harvard affiliates held at least 70 slaves between the school\u2019s founding in 1636 and Massachusetts\u2019 abolition of slavery in 1783. As a result, Harvard pledged $100 million to address its history with the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, Harvard also made headlines by joining other elite postsecondary institutions in rolling back its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-wont-require-standardized-tests-through-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">standardized testing<\/a>\u00a0requirements. High schoolers vying for a spot in the next four undergraduate classes will no longer need to submit scores for the SAT or ACT.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of Gay to serve as president of Harvard also occurs as the Supreme Court appears poised to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/supreme-court-poised-to-overturn-affirmative-action-precedents-key-activists-forecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rule against<\/a> the Ivy League school in a lawsuit contending that admissions officials discriminate against students of Asian descent. One study from 2009 found that Asians required an SAT score 140 points higher than white applicants, 270 points higher than Hispanic applicants, and 450 points higher than black applicants to experience the same chances of admission, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/asianamericanforeducation.org\/en\/issue\/discrimination-on-admissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Asian American Coalition for Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University government professor Claudine Gay will serve as the prestigious school\u2019s first black president and second female president. The news comes six months after current Harvard President Lawrence Bacow announced that he would retire sometime next year. 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