Harvard Backs Gay After Antisemitism Furor Engulfs Campus (1)

Claudine Gay will keep her job as president of Harvard University after weathering calls for her ouster over the school’s handling of campus antisemitism and her widely derided testimony in a congressional hearing last week.

“In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay,” Harvard Corp., the school’s governing body, said in a statement Tuesday. “At Harvard, we champion open discourse and academic freedom, and we are united in our strong belief that calls for violence against our students and disruptions of the classroom experience will not be tolerated.”

Harvard is trying to quell a ...