Clde Gay, Harvard's new print: thoughtful and unflappable

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• CLDE GAY: 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT HARVARD’S FIRST BLACK PRINT
• HARVARD UNIVERSY APPOTS CLDE GAY AS SCHOOL’S FIRST BLACK PRINT
• THE SCHOLAR EVERYONE SOUGHT: CLDE GAY, HARVARD’S NEXT {MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:1.1EM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5EM;LOR:#555;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN CLDE GAY WILL MAKE HISTORY ON JULY 1, WHEN SHE WILL BEE THE FIRST PERSON OF LOR AND ONLY THE SEND WOMAN TO LEAD AMERI’S OLST STUTN OF HIGHER TN. BUT SPE GAY’S HISTORIC APPOTMENT, MANY OF HER LLEAGU AND IENDS SAY THEY WERE UNSURPRISED BY HER SELECTN TO HARVARD’S TOP {MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;-MS-FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:JTIFY;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:SPACE-BETWEEN;-MS-FLEX-PACK:JTIFY;JTIFY-NTENT:SPACE-BETWEEN;MARG-TOP:25PX;MARG-BOTTOM:8PX;}{FONT-FAY:'OPEN SANS';LOR:#777;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;FONT-SIZE:12PX;}{FONT-FAY:'OPEN SANS';LOR:#777;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;FONT-SIZE:12PX;} IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}MIL J. 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GOVERNMENT AT HARVARD NEARLY 25 YEARS AGO, CLDE GAY WAS ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER YOUNG SCHOLARS THE UNTRY.JENNIFER L. HOCHSCHILD, A PRCETON POLICS PROFSOR AT THE TIME, RELLED TRYG TO REC GAY TO THE UNIVERSY — ONLY TO HAVE GAY CHOOSE STANFORD STEAD, WHERE SHE ATTAED TENURE JT FIVE YEARS.AFTER G TO HARVARD, HOCHSCHILD GOT A SEND CHANCE TO PERSUA GAY TO WORK WH HER 2006, WHEN SHE SERVED ON ANOTHER SEARCH MTEE SEEKG TO HIRE GAY.THIS TIME, HOCHSCHILD SUCCEED.SCE THEN, GAY HAS HAD A METEORIC RISE THROUGH HARVARD’S ADMISTRATN. WH A , SHE WAS TAPPED AS AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC. THREE YEARS LATER, SHE WAS APPOTED AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC. LS THAN FIVE YEARS AFTER THAT, ON DEC. 15, 2022, GAY WAS SELECTED AS THE 30TH UNIVERSY PRINT.GAY, 52, WILL MAKE HISTORY ON JULY 1, WHEN SHE WILL BEE THE FIRST PERSON OF LOR AND ONLY THE SEND WOMAN TO LEAD AMERI’S OLST STUTN OF HIGHER TN. BUT SPE GAY’S HISTORIC APPOTMENT, MANY OF HER LLEAGU AND IENDS SAY THEY WERE UNSURPRISED BY HER SELECTN TO HARVARD’S TOP {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:640PX;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:1EM TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}{WIDTH:100%;}{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;MARG:5PX 0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#777;FONT-SIZE:15PX;}FAS DEAN CLDE GAY WAS NAMED HARVARD'S NEXT UNIVERSY PRINT ON DEC. 15, 2022, PPG HER METEORIC RISE TO AMIA'S TOP RANKS. IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}JULIAN J. GRDANO‘OUTSTANDG FROM THE BEGNG’IN MANY WAYS, GAY IS AN SIR THE ELE AMIC WORLD, HAVG WALKED THE HALLS OF SOME OF THE NATN’S MOST PRTIG STUTNS: PHILLIPS EXETER AMY FOR HIGH SCHOOL, PRCETON AND STANFORD FOR LLEGE, AND HARVARD FOR GRADUATE {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTTHE DGHTER OF HAIAN IMMIGRANTS, GAY WAS BORN AND RAISED NEW YORK WH HER OLR BROTHER, SONY GAY JR. AFTER ATTENDG THE CY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, HER MOTHER BEME A REGISTERED NURSE AND HER FATHER A CIVIL ENGEER.GAY ALSO GREW UP SDI ARABIA, WHERE HER FATHER, SONY GAY SR., WORKED FOR THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGEERS. GAY LATER MOVED BACK TO THE U.S. WHERE SHE LIVED GEIA AND COLORADO, BEFORE ATTENDG THE ELE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL PHILLIPS EXETER AMY NEW HAMPSHIRE.ROXANE GAY, CLDE GAY’S FIRST , SAID SHE BELIEV THE EXPERIENCE OF GROWG UP SEVERAL UNTRI AND CI PREPARED HER FOR A REER OF ADJTG TO NEW CIRCUMSTANC AND CHALLENG.“WHEN YOU LIVE ABROAD YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO NAVIGATE OTHER CULTUR AND YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO NOT NECSARILY ASSIATE, BUT ADAPT,” ROXANE GAY SAID. “IF YOU DO THAT OM AN EARLY AGE, THAT ENABL YOU TO BE ABLE TO THRIVE ALMOST ANY SUATN.”AT EXETER, CLDE GAY PETED ON THE WOMEN’S TRACK TEAM AND SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF CIRCULATN FOR THE SCHOOL’S NEWSPAPER, THE EXONIAN, BEFORE GRADUATG OM THE SCHOOL 1988. HER , ROXANE GAY, ALSO ATTEND THE SCHOOL, GRADUATG 1992. CLDE GAY CURRENTLY SERV AS A TSTEE AT PHILLIPS EXETER.ROXANE GAY SAID HER IS STILL THE SAME AS HER YOUNGER SELF: “VERY ROLUTE AND BADASS AND NFINT OF HER PLACE THE WORLD.”CLDE GAY FIRST ENROLLED PRCETON UNIVERSY AS AN UNRGRADUATE, BUT SHE TRANSFERRED TO STANFORD AFTER HER HMAN YEAR BEE SHE NEED A CHANGE, ACRDG TO A 1989 ARTICLE THE STANFORD DAILY.“PRCETON IS LD, TRADNAL AND STERE. STANFORD HAS A MUCH MORE NURTURG, HUMANE ENVIRONMENT,” GAY TOLD THE STANFORD DAILY. “EVERYBODY AT PRCETON WAS ALREADY MIDDLE-AGED. AT STANFORD PEOPLE ARE WORKG BUT STILL SEEM TO BE HAVG A REALLY GOOD TIME.”GAY MAJORED ENOMICS AT STANFORD AND ALSO SERVED AS A RINT ASSISTANT ON THE SEND FLOOR OF KIMBALL HALL, AN UNRGRADUATE DORMORY.GAY, ONT LEFT, SERVED AS A RINT ASSISTANT AT KIMBALL HALL AS AN UNRGRADUATE AT STANFORD. BY COURTY OF JOHN R. RICKFORDADVERTISEMENTANGELA E. RICKFORD AND JOHN R. RICKFORD, WHO SERVED AS KIMBALL HALL RINT FELLOWS AT THE TIME, SAID THEY RECEIVED AROUND 100 APPLITNS FOR THE POSN OF RINT ASSISTANT BEFORE NARROWG DOWN TO 30 PEOPLE.DURG THE TERVIEW PROCS, THE RICKFORDS DIVIDUALLY EVALUATED EACH APPLINT WH A LETTER GRA. WHEN THEY PARED NOT AT THE END, BOTH REALIZED THEY GAVE AN A+ TO ONLY ONE PERSON: CLDE GAY.“SHE WAS OUTSTANDG OM THE BEGNG,” ANGELA RICKFORD SAID.ANGELA RICKFORD SAID SHE REMEMBERED BEG NERVO THAT GAY WOULD CLE THEIR OFFER — SPE KIMBALL HALL BEG A POPULAR LOTN FOR RINT ASSISTANTS — BEE SHE EXPECTED EVERYONE WOULD TRY TO HIRE GAY.“I REMEMBER SAYG TO JOHN, ‘I DON’T THK WE WILL GET HER BEE IF WE BOTH PENNTLY GAVE HER AN A+, THEN EVERYBODY ELSE WHO IS TERVIEWG HER IS PROBABLY GOG TO GIVE HER A HIGH GRA AND SHE’LL END UP HAVG LOTS OF OPTNS,’” SHE SAID. “BUT, LUCKY FOR , SHE DID CHOOSE .”GAY GRADUATED OM STANFORD 1992, WNG THE ANNA LRA MYERS PRIZE FOR BT SENR THIS THE ENOMICS PARTMENT. SHE MOVED TO HARVARD FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL AND PLETED HER PH.D. 1998, RECEIVG THE TOPPAN PRIZE FOR BT POLIL SCIENCE DISSERTATN.GAY, CENTER, WAS HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER EVEN AS AN UNRGRADUATE RA AT STANFORD, ACRDG TO FORMER KIMBALL HALL RINT FELLOWS ANGELA E. RICKFORD AND JOHN R. RICKFORD. BY COURTY OF JOHN R. RICKFORDRISG THROUGH THE RANKSTAKG THE PODIUM WHERE HARVARD CORPORATN SENR FELLOW PENNY S. PRZKER ’81 HAD JT ANNOUNCED HER AS THE NEXT PRINT, GAY LGHED, SHOOK HER HEAD, AND VERED HER MOUTH DISBELIEF. GAY, THE OTHERWISE FORMAL AND POSED HARVARD ADMISTRATOR, WAS VISIBLY OVERWHELMED BY EMOTN AS SHE FACED THE CHEERG CROWD WHO NOW REGNIZED HER AS THEIR FUTURE LEAR.“THIS IS CRAZY,” GAY SAID, LGHG.ADVERTISEMENTBUT MANY OF GAY’S CURRENT AND FORMER LLEAGU DISAGREE, POTG TO HER TELLECTUAL TALENT, LEARSHIP ABILI, AND PERSONALY.HOCHSCHILD, WHO TGHT SEVERAL HARVARD SEMAR URS ALONGSI THE FUTURE PRINT, SAID GAY’S TALENT WAS EASILY REGNIZABLE OM THE START.“SCE G OUT OF GRADUATE SCHOOL — WHICH OF URSE SHE DID HERE — ’S JT BEEN REAL CLEAR THAT SHE IS JT A VERY HIGH QUALY PERSON,” HOCHSCHILD SAID.BARRY R. WEGAST, A PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT STANFORD, SAID THAT GAY STOOD OUT AMONG HER PEERS WHEN SHE STARTED TEACHG AT STANFORD UNIVERSY.“SHE WAS NOT NERVO AS MANY ASSISTANT PROFSORS ARE,” WEGAST SAID. “SHE KNEW WHERE SHE WAS GOG. SHE KNEW WHAT SHE NEED TO DO.”GAY RECEIVED “EARLY TENURE” AT STANFORD AFTER PUBLISHG SEVERAL ARTICL THAT GAED WISPREAD REGNN BEFORE SHE WAS POACHED BY HARVARD 2006, ACRDG TO {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:100%;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:1EM TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}GAY, PICTURED 2007, BEGAN TEACHG AT HARVARD 2006. BY ERIC A. REAVISA SCHOLAR OF POLIL BEHAVR, GAY HAS WRTEN NUMERO ARTICL FOCG ON ISSU OF RACE AND POLICS THE UNED STAT. SHE HAS -EDED A BOOK WH HOCHSCHILD AND TWO OTHER SCHOLARS, BUT SHE HAS NOT THORED A BOOK.“SHE JT THKS VERY CLEARLY,” HOCHSCHILD SAID. “SHE HAS THE PACY TO HONE ON WHAT REALLY MATTERS.”ARIEL WHE, A FORMER GRADUATE STUNT THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT, SAID GAY — THE CHAIR OF HER DISSERTATN MTEE — WAS A “BRILLIANT SCHOLAR” AND SOMEONE SHE WAS LUCKY TO WORK WH.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE ALWAYS LISTENS VERY ATTENTIVELY, AND THEN SHE ASKS THE VERY SIMPLE-SOUNDG QUTNS THAT GET RIGHT TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER,” SHE SAID. “THAT WAS THE THG THAT MA ME REALIZE, ‘OH, THIS IS THE SCHOLAR WHO I WANT READG MY WORK AND REACTG TO AND MAKG BETTER.’”IN 2015, FORMER FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN MICHAEL D. SMH TAPPED GAY TO SERVE AS AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC.“HER NAME ME UP WH LOTS OF FANTASTIC MENTS BY MANY OF HER LLEAGU ABOUT THE KDS OF SKILLS AND ACTNS THAT SHE’D ALREADY BEEN DOG SIMPLY AS A FACULTY MEMBER WH THE SOCIAL SCIENC,” HE SAID.SMH RELLED BEG “SEVERELY IMPRSED” BY GAY DURG THE HIRG PROCS AND PRAISED HER DILIGENCE AS AN.“I LOVED WORKG WH HER DAY AND DAY OUT ON THE ISSU THAT WOULD E UP,” HE SAID. “WHEN SHE WOULD E TO OUR MEETGS, SHE WAS ALWAYS EXTREMELY WELL-PREPARED, UNRSTOOD THE ISSU THAT WE NEED TO BE TALKG ABOUT WHEN WE HAD DIFFICULT PROBLEMS.”THREE YEARS LATER, HARVARD UNIVERSY PRINT LAWRENCE S. BAW APPOTED GAY TO SUCCEED SMH AS FAS AN.“SHE IS A SCHOLAR OF UNMON CREATIVY AND RIGOR, WH A STRONG WORKG KNOWLEDGE OF THE OPPORTUNI AND CHALLENG FACG THE FAS,” BAW SAID A JULY 2018 PRS RELEASE ANNOUNCG HER APPOTMENT. “SHE RADIAT A NCERN FOR OTHERS, AND FOR HOW WHAT WE DO HERE N HELP IMPROVE LIV FAR BEYOND OUR WALLS.”WHEN BAW ANNOUNCED JUNE 2022 THAT HE WOULD STEP DOWN, DEAN OF ARTS AND HUMANI ROB E. KELSEY SAID HE IMMEDIATELY KNEW WHO BAW’S SUCCSOR SHOULD BE.“MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS THAT DEAN GAY SHOULD BE OUR NEXT PRINT,” HE SAID.GAY BEME AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC 2018 AFTER ONLY THREE YEARS AS A HARVARD ADMISTRATOR, A LTLE OVER A AFTER FIRST JOG THE UNIVERSY AS A PROFSOR. BY ALLISON G. LEEADVERTISEMENT‘RECEPTIVE INSTUTNAL LEAR’AS GAY PREPAR TO MOVE OM UNIVERSY HALL TO MASSACHETTS HALL, LLEAGU SAID THEY EXPECT TELLECTUAL AND MOGRAPHIC DIVERSY TO BE KEY EMS ON HER AGENDA.KELSEY HIGHLIGHTED FACULTY APPOTMENTS AND CURRICULUM CHANG AS IMPORTANT ISSU FOR GAY’S TENURE.“SHE’S BEEN REALLY TERMED TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE FACULTY WE NEED TO MEET THE CHALLENG AND TO MATCH THE TERTS OF A NEW GENERATN,” HE SAID. “I THK SHE WILL NTUE TO DO THAT OM MASSACHETTS HALL.”DURG HER TIME AS AN OF THE FAS, GAY WORKED TO BRG MORE ETHNIC STUDI SCHOLARS TO HARVARD, HIRG THREE ETHNIC STUDI PROFSORS LAST YEAR. IN AN APRIL 2022 TERVIEW, GAY SAID SHE SUPPORTS THE CREATN OF AN UNRGRADUATE NCENTRATN ETHNICY, DIGENEY, AND MIGRATN.TAEKU LEE, A GOVERNMENT PROFSOR WHO JOED HARVARD 2022 AS PART OF THE ETHNIC STUDI CLER HIRE, WROTE AN EMAILED STATEMENT THAT HE JOED HARVARD LARGE PART BEE OF GAY’S “VISN FOR AND LEARSHIP ON THE ETHNICY, INDIGENEY, AND MIGRATN IATIVE.”“I AM FILLED WH HOPE FOR THE UNIVERSY AND, NO SURPRISE, FOR THE FUTURE OF ETHNIC STUDI BY HER SELECTN AS HARVARD’S 30TH PRINT,” LEE WROTE.AS PRINT, GAY WILL ALSO FACE A S-OLD MAND FOR AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT.DEAN OF THE SOCIAL SCIENC LAWRENCE D. BOBO SAID GAY “FUNDAMENTALLY HAS BOUGHT TO THE RE ASPIRATNS” OF THE PH FOR A PARTMENT.“SHE HAS WORKED VERY HARD TO BUILD A FACULTY THAT IS NOT ONLY MORE TELLECTUALLY DIVERSE ALONG THE L, BUT REALLY MOGRAPHILLY MORE DIVERSE,” HE SAID. “SHE WILL CERTALY, I WOULD EXPECT, NTUE THAT AS A PRRY.”ADVERTISEMENTGAY, WHO WORKED TO HIRE ETHNIC STUDI SCHOLARS AS FAS AN, IS EXPECTED TO FACE LLS TO FOUND AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT AS PRINT. BY RYAN N. GAJARAWALABOBO SAID HE WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THE CREATN OF AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT DURG GAY’S TENURE, BUT SAID THAT IS “NOT OBV” TO HIM THAT A PARTMENT IS “THE FORM OUGHT TO TAKE.”“THERE ARE SEVERAL OPTNS HERE,” HE SAID. “I WANT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO S DOWN AND SIGN KNOWG THAT — IF THEY REACH NSENS ON A PLAN AND LAY OUT THE TELLECTUAL SE FOR — KNOWG THAT THEY’RE GOG TO HAVE A VERY RECEPTIVE STUTNAL LEAR CLDE GAY.”GAY ALSO STEERED THE FAS THROUGH SEVERAL SNDALS RELATED TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT DURG HER TENURE AS AN.IN SUMMER 2019, GAY STRIPPED GOVERNMENT PROFSOR JE I. DOMíNGUEZ OF HIS EMER STAT AND DISVED HIM OM THE FAS MP AFTER AN VTIGATN. GAY ALSO SPEND ENOMICS PROFSOR ROLAND G. FRYER JR., WHO FACED ACCATNS OF SEXUALLY HARASSG -WORKERS. IN 2021, THE SCHOOL RESTATED FRYER’S TEACHG AND REARCH ROL.FOLLOWG A 2020 CRIMSON VTIGATN THAT UNVERED ALLEGATNS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT THE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT, GAY STRIPPED PROFSOR GARY URTON OF HIS EMER STAT AND SANCTNED PROFSOR JOHN L. COMAROFF FOR VLATG THE SCHOOL’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND PROFSNAL NDUCT POLICI.HARVARD FACULTY ALSO PRAISED GAY’S LEARSHIP OF THE FAS AFTER THE COVID-19 PANMIC FORCED STUNTS TO PART MP MARCH 2020.BOBO POTED TO A MEETG EARLY MARCH 2020 WHEN GAY RMED FAS LEARSHIP THAT MP WOULD BE CLOSG AND LEARNG WOULD SHIFT ONLE.“SHE HANDLED THAT MEETG WH EXTRAORDARY APLOMB AND NFINCE AND PLANFULNS,” BOBO SAID. “OVER THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED, SHE EXHIBED WHAT I N ONLY REGARD AS REALLY EXCEPTNAL CLARY OF PURPOSE, STEADS AT THE HELM, AND EXUD A REAL NFINCE THAT WE WERE GOG TO MAKE A VERY DIFFICULT SUATN WORK.”KELSEY AGREED.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE NEVER SEEMED SHAKEN BY THE PANMIC AND THE CHALLENG THAT POSED,” KELSEY SAID. “SHE KEPT THE TEAM TOGETHER.”HOCHSCHILD, WHO SERVED AS THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT CHAIR FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF GAY’S TENURE AS FAS AN, SAID GAY HAS “STRONG VIEWS.”“SHE’S NOT SHY ABOUT EXPRSG THEM OR ABOUT WANTG TO IMPLEMENT THEM WHEN WAS HER JOB TO MAKE A CISN HER ROLE AS AN,” HOCHSCHILD SAID. “BUT SHE’S VERY MTED TO PARTICIPATN THE PROCS OF REACHG THE RIGHT ANSWER.”SMH SCRIBED GAY AS A “STRAIGHTFORWARD” PERSON WHO IS “NOT PLAYG ANY GAM.”“SHE DON’T FEEL THE NEED TO HI ANY ASPECTS OF HERSELF, AND I DON’T SEE ANY REASON WHY SHE WOULD BEE SHE HAS SO MANY STRONG ATTRIBUT,” HE SAID.“YOU N’T PH HER AROUND, AND I THK THAT’S A FANTASTIC QUALY,” HE ADD.GAY GUID THE FAS THROUGH THE COVID-19 PANMIC AS AN AND "NEVER SEEMED SHAKEN," ACRDG TO DEAN OF ARTS AND HUMANI ROB E. KELSEY. BY JULIAN J. GRDANO‘GENUELY WARM’WHEN MOVG TO HASKS HALL AS A FIRST-YEAR GRADUATE STUNT AT HARVARD, GAY BROUGHT THE THREE THGS “THAT SEEMED MOST SENTIAL TO MY SUCCS AT THE TIME,” SHE SAID AT THE DECEMBER PRS NFERENCE: “A FUTON, A MAC CLASSIC II, AND A ST IRON SKILLET FOR YG PLANTAS.”GAY NTUED TO SHARE HER LOVE FOR OKG AT HARVARD SEVERAL S LATER AS A PROFSOR.ADVERTISEMENTHOCHSCHILD SAID THAT GAY WOULD VE THEIR WHOLE CLASS TO HER HOE AT THE END OF EVERY YEAR.“SHE WAS THE ONE WHO ANIZED AND BROUGHT LOTS AND LOTS OF FOOD AND MA SURE THAT EVERYBODY WAS ENGAGED AND TALKG,” SHE SAID.WHILE HOCHSCHILD SAID GAY WAS FUNNY AND A “VERY GOOD HOSTS,” GAY ALSO MATAED HER CLASSROOM PERSONA DURG THE RMAL GATHERGS.“SHE NEVER LOOSENED UP A WHOLE LOT, OR AT LEAST NOT BROAD PANY,” HOCHSCHILD SAID.KELSEY SAID GAY ALSO ENJOYS GOG ON NS AND EATG HOT LUNCH, ADDG THAT SHE “DO NOT LIKE A LD BUFFET.”WHE ALSO PRAISED GAY FOR BEG A “GENUELY WARM AND RG” MENTOR SPE HER HECTIC SCHLE.“SHE WAS GETTG PULLED A LN DIRECTNS,” WHE SAID. “BUT VARIABLY, WHEN I HAD A MEETG ON THE LENDAR WH HER, AND I GOT TO HER OFFICE, SHE HAD ALWAYS READ THE THG THAT I HAD SENT HER. SHE HAD THOUGHTFUL MENTS ON .”“DURG THAT TIME THAT WE WERE MEETG, WAS LIKE I WAS THE ONLY PERSON SHE HAD TO TALK TO THAT DAY,” WHE ADD.THE NEW FACE OF HARVARDWH GRE OM EXETER, STANFORD, AND HARVARD, GAY’S ASCENSN THROUGH THE RANKS OF AMIA SEEMED ALMOST EVABLE. HER , ROXANE GAY, REGNIZED THIS POTENTIAL CLDE GAY OM A YOUNG AGE.ADVERTISEMENT“I THK SHE WAS ALWAYS WELL-SUED FOR AMIA,” ROXANE GAY SAID. “SHE’S ALWAYS BEEN GRACLY CUR AND TERTED HOW THGS WORK AND HOW PEOPLE WORK AND HOW WE N DO THE BS OF LIFE BETTER.”ROXANE GAY SAID SHE KNEW HER ULD REACH THE TOP AMIA IF SHE SET HER MD ON , ADDG THAT SHE N’T IMAGE A BETTER PERSON TO SERVE AS “THE FACE AND THE HEART OF HARVARD THE PUBLIC SPHERE.”BOBO SAID THE PRINTIAL SEARCH MTEE MA THE RIGHT CISN BY FAR.“I DON’T THK THERE WAS ANYBODY ELSE WHO WAS GENUELY A CLOSE SEND,” HE SAID. “THIS WAS VERY FELY THE RIGHT OUTE — AND AN EXCG ONE.”ROXANE GAY ALSO REGNIZED THE HISTORY BEHD HER ’S SELECTN.“IT’S ALWAYS NICE WHEN STUTNS LIKE HARVARD THAT ARE SO STEEPED TRADN AND STEEPED RISTG CHANGE ARE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD AND BE A PART OF THE WORLD AS IS, STEAD OF AS ONCE WAS,” ROXANE GAY ADD.GAY MA HISTORY DECEMBER WHEN SHE WAS SELECTED AS HARVARD'S FIRST PRINT OF LOR S HISTORY. BY JULIAN J. GRDANOLEE, THE FIRST HIRE CLDE GAY’S ETHNIC STUDI FACULTY SEARCH, WROTE AN EMAILED STATEMENT THAT GAY IS THE PRINT THAT THE HARVARD STUNT BODY HAS “LONG AWAED AND RIGHTLY SERVE.”“WE OFTEN TOUT OUR STUNTS AS THE FUTURE LEARS OF THEIR MUNI AND OF THE WORLD, YET THE EXAMPLE OF FAR TOO MANY POSNS OF POWER TODAY IS PLORABLE AND MORALIZG,” LEE WROTE. “SO I AM ALSO FILLED WH HOPE FOR OUR STUNTS, WHO N NOW TAKE OM DEAN GAY AS PRINT A SHG EXAMPLE OF WHAT ETHIL, IMPACTFUL LEARSHIP N BE.”MORE THAN THREE S LATER AND THOANDS OF AWAY OM WHERE THEY ONCE LIVED KIMBALL HALL TOGETHER, ANGELA RICKFORD SAID SOME OF GAY’S CHARACTERISTICS HAVE NOT CHANGED.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE’S JT A WNER,” RICKFORD SAID. “ALWAYS WAS.”—STAFF WRER MIL J. HERSZENHORN N BE REACHED AT . FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER @MHERSZENHORN.—STAFF WRER CLAIRE YUAN N BE REACHED AT . 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• CLDE GAY
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• HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT
• CLDE GAY: HARVARD UNIVERSY PICKS FIRST BLACK PRINT
• CLDE GAY TO SERVE AS HARVARD'S 30TH PRINT
• HARVARD UNIVERSY ANNOUNCED CLDE GAY AS 1ST BLACK PRINT, 2ND WOMAN
• CLDE GAY TO BE HARVARD'S 1ST BLACK PRINT, 2ND WOMAN
• ‘QUIET STRENGTH’ AT THE TOP: IN CLDE GAY, HARVARD TURNS TO OL, UNFLAPPABLE LEARSHIP AT A TIME OF HIGHER TN TURMOIL
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

CLDE GAY: 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT HARVARD’S FIRST BLACK PRINT

Gay, who is currently the an of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc, will be the school’s first Black lear and the send woman ever to hold the posn when she tak over next are five thgs to know about the history-makg ’s the dghter of Haian immigrantsGay, 52, was born New York Cy, where her parents, Haian immigrants to the U.

“My parents believed that tn opens every door, but of urse they gave me three optns: I uld bee an engeer, a doctor or a lawyer, which I’m sure that other kids of immigrant parents uld relate to, ” Gay said at an announcement ceremony on Thursday. Acrdg to Gay’s b on Harvard’s webse, she has “explored such topics as how the electn of mory officeholrs affects cizens’ perceptns of their ernment and their tert polics and public affairs; how neighborhood environments shape racial and polil attus among Black Amerins; the roots of petn and operatn between mory groups, wh a particular foc on relatns between Black Amerins and Latos; and the nsequenc of hog mobily programs for polil participatn among the poor. But her tenure as an has not been whout ntroversyEarlier this year, more than three dozen Harvard profsors signed an open letter to Gay cricizg her cisn to place a profsor on unpaid leave followg allegatns of sexual misnduct.

HARVARD UNIVERSY APPOTS CLDE GAY AS SCHOOL’S FIRST BLACK PRINT

Greeted by joyo hoots and a thunrg ovatn, Clde Gay, Edgerley Fay Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc, spoke before an ebullient crowd Thursday afternoon at Smh Camp Center for the first time as the Universy’s 30th print-elect.

Secretary of merce, scribed Gay as a “natural llaborator” and a “remarkable” lear and scholar, a person of “ep tegry” who sets high standards for herself and others and who “brgs people together a spir of mon purpose. Gay said that among her top prri will be nnectg the Universy even more closely to the world, through scholarship and partnerships wh for-profs and nonprofs, and makg higher tn more accsible to a wir array of people.

THE SCHOLAR EVERYONE SOUGHT: CLDE GAY, HARVARD’S NEXT {MAX-WIDTH:600PX;MARG:0PX TO;PADDG:0PX 20PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:1.1EM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5EM;LOR:#555;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN CLDE GAY WILL MAKE HISTORY ON JULY 1, WHEN SHE WILL BEE THE FIRST PERSON OF LOR AND ONLY THE SEND WOMAN TO LEAD AMERI’S OLST STUTN OF HIGHER TN. 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GOVERNMENT AT HARVARD NEARLY 25 YEARS AGO, CLDE GAY WAS ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER YOUNG SCHOLARS THE UNTRY.JENNIFER L. HOCHSCHILD, A PRCETON POLICS PROFSOR AT THE TIME, RELLED TRYG TO REC GAY TO THE UNIVERSY — ONLY TO HAVE GAY CHOOSE STANFORD STEAD, WHERE SHE ATTAED TENURE JT FIVE YEARS.AFTER G TO HARVARD, HOCHSCHILD GOT A SEND CHANCE TO PERSUA GAY TO WORK WH HER 2006, WHEN SHE SERVED ON ANOTHER SEARCH MTEE SEEKG TO HIRE GAY.THIS TIME, HOCHSCHILD SUCCEED.SCE THEN, GAY HAS HAD A METEORIC RISE THROUGH HARVARD’S ADMISTRATN. WH A , SHE WAS TAPPED AS AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC. THREE YEARS LATER, SHE WAS APPOTED AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC. LS THAN FIVE YEARS AFTER THAT, ON DEC. 15, 2022, GAY WAS SELECTED AS THE 30TH UNIVERSY PRINT.GAY, 52, WILL MAKE HISTORY ON JULY 1, WHEN SHE WILL BEE THE FIRST PERSON OF LOR AND ONLY THE SEND WOMAN TO LEAD AMERI’S OLST STUTN OF HIGHER TN. BUT SPE GAY’S HISTORIC APPOTMENT, MANY OF HER LLEAGU AND IENDS SAY THEY WERE UNSURPRISED BY HER SELECTN TO HARVARD’S TOP {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:640PX;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:1EM TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}{WIDTH:100%;}{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;MARG:5PX 0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#777;FONT-SIZE:15PX;}FAS DEAN CLDE GAY WAS NAMED HARVARD'S NEXT UNIVERSY PRINT ON DEC. 15, 2022, PPG HER METEORIC RISE TO AMIA'S TOP RANKS. IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}JULIAN J. GRDANO‘OUTSTANDG FROM THE BEGNG’IN MANY WAYS, GAY IS AN SIR THE ELE AMIC WORLD, HAVG WALKED THE HALLS OF SOME OF THE NATN’S MOST PRTIG STUTNS: PHILLIPS EXETER AMY FOR HIGH SCHOOL, PRCETON AND STANFORD FOR LLEGE, AND HARVARD FOR GRADUATE {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTTHE DGHTER OF HAIAN IMMIGRANTS, GAY WAS BORN AND RAISED NEW YORK WH HER OLR BROTHER, SONY GAY JR. AFTER ATTENDG THE CY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, HER MOTHER BEME A REGISTERED NURSE AND HER FATHER A CIVIL ENGEER.GAY ALSO GREW UP SDI ARABIA, WHERE HER FATHER, SONY GAY SR., WORKED FOR THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGEERS. GAY LATER MOVED BACK TO THE U.S. WHERE SHE LIVED GEIA AND COLORADO, BEFORE ATTENDG THE ELE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL PHILLIPS EXETER AMY NEW HAMPSHIRE.ROXANE GAY, CLDE GAY’S FIRST , SAID SHE BELIEV THE EXPERIENCE OF GROWG UP SEVERAL UNTRI AND CI PREPARED HER FOR A REER OF ADJTG TO NEW CIRCUMSTANC AND CHALLENG.“WHEN YOU LIVE ABROAD YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO NAVIGATE OTHER CULTUR AND YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO NOT NECSARILY ASSIATE, BUT ADAPT,” ROXANE GAY SAID. “IF YOU DO THAT OM AN EARLY AGE, THAT ENABL YOU TO BE ABLE TO THRIVE ALMOST ANY SUATN.”AT EXETER, CLDE GAY PETED ON THE WOMEN’S TRACK TEAM AND SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF CIRCULATN FOR THE SCHOOL’S NEWSPAPER, THE EXONIAN, BEFORE GRADUATG OM THE SCHOOL 1988. HER , ROXANE GAY, ALSO ATTEND THE SCHOOL, GRADUATG 1992. CLDE GAY CURRENTLY SERV AS A TSTEE AT PHILLIPS EXETER.ROXANE GAY SAID HER IS STILL THE SAME AS HER YOUNGER SELF: “VERY ROLUTE AND BADASS AND NFINT OF HER PLACE THE WORLD.”CLDE GAY FIRST ENROLLED PRCETON UNIVERSY AS AN UNRGRADUATE, BUT SHE TRANSFERRED TO STANFORD AFTER HER HMAN YEAR BEE SHE NEED A CHANGE, ACRDG TO A 1989 ARTICLE THE STANFORD DAILY.“PRCETON IS LD, TRADNAL AND STERE. STANFORD HAS A MUCH MORE NURTURG, HUMANE ENVIRONMENT,” GAY TOLD THE STANFORD DAILY. “EVERYBODY AT PRCETON WAS ALREADY MIDDLE-AGED. AT STANFORD PEOPLE ARE WORKG BUT STILL SEEM TO BE HAVG A REALLY GOOD TIME.”GAY MAJORED ENOMICS AT STANFORD AND ALSO SERVED AS A RINT ASSISTANT ON THE SEND FLOOR OF KIMBALL HALL, AN UNRGRADUATE DORMORY.GAY, ONT LEFT, SERVED AS A RINT ASSISTANT AT KIMBALL HALL AS AN UNRGRADUATE AT STANFORD. BY COURTY OF JOHN R. RICKFORDADVERTISEMENTANGELA E. RICKFORD AND JOHN R. RICKFORD, WHO SERVED AS KIMBALL HALL RINT FELLOWS AT THE TIME, SAID THEY RECEIVED AROUND 100 APPLITNS FOR THE POSN OF RINT ASSISTANT BEFORE NARROWG DOWN TO 30 PEOPLE.DURG THE TERVIEW PROCS, THE RICKFORDS DIVIDUALLY EVALUATED EACH APPLINT WH A LETTER GRA. WHEN THEY PARED NOT AT THE END, BOTH REALIZED THEY GAVE AN A+ TO ONLY ONE PERSON: CLDE GAY.“SHE WAS OUTSTANDG OM THE BEGNG,” ANGELA RICKFORD SAID.ANGELA RICKFORD SAID SHE REMEMBERED BEG NERVO THAT GAY WOULD CLE THEIR OFFER — SPE KIMBALL HALL BEG A POPULAR LOTN FOR RINT ASSISTANTS — BEE SHE EXPECTED EVERYONE WOULD TRY TO HIRE GAY.“I REMEMBER SAYG TO JOHN, ‘I DON’T THK WE WILL GET HER BEE IF WE BOTH PENNTLY GAVE HER AN A+, THEN EVERYBODY ELSE WHO IS TERVIEWG HER IS PROBABLY GOG TO GIVE HER A HIGH GRA AND SHE’LL END UP HAVG LOTS OF OPTNS,’” SHE SAID. “BUT, LUCKY FOR , SHE DID CHOOSE .”GAY GRADUATED OM STANFORD 1992, WNG THE ANNA LRA MYERS PRIZE FOR BT SENR THIS THE ENOMICS PARTMENT. SHE MOVED TO HARVARD FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL AND PLETED HER PH.D. 1998, RECEIVG THE TOPPAN PRIZE FOR BT POLIL SCIENCE DISSERTATN.GAY, CENTER, WAS HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER EVEN AS AN UNRGRADUATE RA AT STANFORD, ACRDG TO FORMER KIMBALL HALL RINT FELLOWS ANGELA E. RICKFORD AND JOHN R. RICKFORD. BY COURTY OF JOHN R. RICKFORDRISG THROUGH THE RANKSTAKG THE PODIUM WHERE HARVARD CORPORATN SENR FELLOW PENNY S. PRZKER ’81 HAD JT ANNOUNCED HER AS THE NEXT PRINT, GAY LGHED, SHOOK HER HEAD, AND VERED HER MOUTH DISBELIEF. GAY, THE OTHERWISE FORMAL AND POSED HARVARD ADMISTRATOR, WAS VISIBLY OVERWHELMED BY EMOTN AS SHE FACED THE CHEERG CROWD WHO NOW REGNIZED HER AS THEIR FUTURE LEAR.“THIS IS CRAZY,” GAY SAID, LGHG.ADVERTISEMENTBUT MANY OF GAY’S CURRENT AND FORMER LLEAGU DISAGREE, POTG TO HER TELLECTUAL TALENT, LEARSHIP ABILI, AND PERSONALY.HOCHSCHILD, WHO TGHT SEVERAL HARVARD SEMAR URS ALONGSI THE FUTURE PRINT, SAID GAY’S TALENT WAS EASILY REGNIZABLE OM THE START.“SCE G OUT OF GRADUATE SCHOOL — WHICH OF URSE SHE DID HERE — ’S JT BEEN REAL CLEAR THAT SHE IS JT A VERY HIGH QUALY PERSON,” HOCHSCHILD SAID.BARRY R. WEGAST, A PROFSOR OF POLIL SCIENCE AT STANFORD, SAID THAT GAY STOOD OUT AMONG HER PEERS WHEN SHE STARTED TEACHG AT STANFORD UNIVERSY.“SHE WAS NOT NERVO AS MANY ASSISTANT PROFSORS ARE,” WEGAST SAID. “SHE KNEW WHERE SHE WAS GOG. SHE KNEW WHAT SHE NEED TO DO.”GAY RECEIVED “EARLY TENURE” AT STANFORD AFTER PUBLISHG SEVERAL ARTICL THAT GAED WISPREAD REGNN BEFORE SHE WAS POACHED BY HARVARD 2006, ACRDG TO {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:100%;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:1EM TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}GAY, PICTURED 2007, BEGAN TEACHG AT HARVARD 2006. BY ERIC A. REAVISA SCHOLAR OF POLIL BEHAVR, GAY HAS WRTEN NUMERO ARTICL FOCG ON ISSU OF RACE AND POLICS THE UNED STAT. SHE HAS -EDED A BOOK WH HOCHSCHILD AND TWO OTHER SCHOLARS, BUT SHE HAS NOT THORED A BOOK.“SHE JT THKS VERY CLEARLY,” HOCHSCHILD SAID. “SHE HAS THE PACY TO HONE ON WHAT REALLY MATTERS.”ARIEL WHE, A FORMER GRADUATE STUNT THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT, SAID GAY — THE CHAIR OF HER DISSERTATN MTEE — WAS A “BRILLIANT SCHOLAR” AND SOMEONE SHE WAS LUCKY TO WORK WH.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE ALWAYS LISTENS VERY ATTENTIVELY, AND THEN SHE ASKS THE VERY SIMPLE-SOUNDG QUTNS THAT GET RIGHT TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER,” SHE SAID. “THAT WAS THE THG THAT MA ME REALIZE, ‘OH, THIS IS THE SCHOLAR WHO I WANT READG MY WORK AND REACTG TO AND MAKG BETTER.’”IN 2015, FORMER FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC DEAN MICHAEL D. SMH TAPPED GAY TO SERVE AS AN OF SOCIAL SCIENC.“HER NAME ME UP WH LOTS OF FANTASTIC MENTS BY MANY OF HER LLEAGU ABOUT THE KDS OF SKILLS AND ACTNS THAT SHE’D ALREADY BEEN DOG SIMPLY AS A FACULTY MEMBER WH THE SOCIAL SCIENC,” HE SAID.SMH RELLED BEG “SEVERELY IMPRSED” BY GAY DURG THE HIRG PROCS AND PRAISED HER DILIGENCE AS AN.“I LOVED WORKG WH HER DAY AND DAY OUT ON THE ISSU THAT WOULD E UP,” HE SAID. “WHEN SHE WOULD E TO OUR MEETGS, SHE WAS ALWAYS EXTREMELY WELL-PREPARED, UNRSTOOD THE ISSU THAT WE NEED TO BE TALKG ABOUT WHEN WE HAD DIFFICULT PROBLEMS.”THREE YEARS LATER, HARVARD UNIVERSY PRINT LAWRENCE S. BAW APPOTED GAY TO SUCCEED SMH AS FAS AN.“SHE IS A SCHOLAR OF UNMON CREATIVY AND RIGOR, WH A STRONG WORKG KNOWLEDGE OF THE OPPORTUNI AND CHALLENG FACG THE FAS,” BAW SAID A JULY 2018 PRS RELEASE ANNOUNCG HER APPOTMENT. “SHE RADIAT A NCERN FOR OTHERS, AND FOR HOW WHAT WE DO HERE N HELP IMPROVE LIV FAR BEYOND OUR WALLS.”WHEN BAW ANNOUNCED JUNE 2022 THAT HE WOULD STEP DOWN, DEAN OF ARTS AND HUMANI ROB E. KELSEY SAID HE IMMEDIATELY KNEW WHO BAW’S SUCCSOR SHOULD BE.“MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS THAT DEAN GAY SHOULD BE OUR NEXT PRINT,” HE SAID.GAY BEME AN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENC 2018 AFTER ONLY THREE YEARS AS A HARVARD ADMISTRATOR, A LTLE OVER A AFTER FIRST JOG THE UNIVERSY AS A PROFSOR. BY ALLISON G. LEEADVERTISEMENT‘RECEPTIVE INSTUTNAL LEAR’AS GAY PREPAR TO MOVE OM UNIVERSY HALL TO MASSACHETTS HALL, LLEAGU SAID THEY EXPECT TELLECTUAL AND MOGRAPHIC DIVERSY TO BE KEY EMS ON HER AGENDA.KELSEY HIGHLIGHTED FACULTY APPOTMENTS AND CURRICULUM CHANG AS IMPORTANT ISSU FOR GAY’S TENURE.“SHE’S BEEN REALLY TERMED TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE FACULTY WE NEED TO MEET THE CHALLENG AND TO MATCH THE TERTS OF A NEW GENERATN,” HE SAID. “I THK SHE WILL NTUE TO DO THAT OM MASSACHETTS HALL.”DURG HER TIME AS AN OF THE FAS, GAY WORKED TO BRG MORE ETHNIC STUDI SCHOLARS TO HARVARD, HIRG THREE ETHNIC STUDI PROFSORS LAST YEAR. IN AN APRIL 2022 TERVIEW, GAY SAID SHE SUPPORTS THE CREATN OF AN UNRGRADUATE NCENTRATN ETHNICY, DIGENEY, AND MIGRATN.TAEKU LEE, A GOVERNMENT PROFSOR WHO JOED HARVARD 2022 AS PART OF THE ETHNIC STUDI CLER HIRE, WROTE AN EMAILED STATEMENT THAT HE JOED HARVARD LARGE PART BEE OF GAY’S “VISN FOR AND LEARSHIP ON THE ETHNICY, INDIGENEY, AND MIGRATN IATIVE.”“I AM FILLED WH HOPE FOR THE UNIVERSY AND, NO SURPRISE, FOR THE FUTURE OF ETHNIC STUDI BY HER SELECTN AS HARVARD’S 30TH PRINT,” LEE WROTE.AS PRINT, GAY WILL ALSO FACE A S-OLD MAND FOR AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT.DEAN OF THE SOCIAL SCIENC LAWRENCE D. BOBO SAID GAY “FUNDAMENTALLY HAS BOUGHT TO THE RE ASPIRATNS” OF THE PH FOR A PARTMENT.“SHE HAS WORKED VERY HARD TO BUILD A FACULTY THAT IS NOT ONLY MORE TELLECTUALLY DIVERSE ALONG THE L, BUT REALLY MOGRAPHILLY MORE DIVERSE,” HE SAID. “SHE WILL CERTALY, I WOULD EXPECT, NTUE THAT AS A PRRY.”ADVERTISEMENTGAY, WHO WORKED TO HIRE ETHNIC STUDI SCHOLARS AS FAS AN, IS EXPECTED TO FACE LLS TO FOUND AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT AS PRINT. BY RYAN N. GAJARAWALABOBO SAID HE WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THE CREATN OF AN ETHNIC STUDI PARTMENT DURG GAY’S TENURE, BUT SAID THAT IS “NOT OBV” TO HIM THAT A PARTMENT IS “THE FORM OUGHT TO TAKE.”“THERE ARE SEVERAL OPTNS HERE,” HE SAID. “I WANT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO S DOWN AND SIGN KNOWG THAT — IF THEY REACH NSENS ON A PLAN AND LAY OUT THE TELLECTUAL SE FOR — KNOWG THAT THEY’RE GOG TO HAVE A VERY RECEPTIVE STUTNAL LEAR CLDE GAY.”GAY ALSO STEERED THE FAS THROUGH SEVERAL SNDALS RELATED TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT DURG HER TENURE AS AN.IN SUMMER 2019, GAY STRIPPED GOVERNMENT PROFSOR JE I. DOMíNGUEZ OF HIS EMER STAT AND DISVED HIM OM THE FAS MP AFTER AN VTIGATN. GAY ALSO SPEND ENOMICS PROFSOR ROLAND G. FRYER JR., WHO FACED ACCATNS OF SEXUALLY HARASSG -WORKERS. IN 2021, THE SCHOOL RESTATED FRYER’S TEACHG AND REARCH ROL.FOLLOWG A 2020 CRIMSON VTIGATN THAT UNVERED ALLEGATNS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT THE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT, GAY STRIPPED PROFSOR GARY URTON OF HIS EMER STAT AND SANCTNED PROFSOR JOHN L. COMAROFF FOR VLATG THE SCHOOL’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND PROFSNAL NDUCT POLICI.HARVARD FACULTY ALSO PRAISED GAY’S LEARSHIP OF THE FAS AFTER THE COVID-19 PANMIC FORCED STUNTS TO PART MP MARCH 2020.BOBO POTED TO A MEETG EARLY MARCH 2020 WHEN GAY RMED FAS LEARSHIP THAT MP WOULD BE CLOSG AND LEARNG WOULD SHIFT ONLE.“SHE HANDLED THAT MEETG WH EXTRAORDARY APLOMB AND NFINCE AND PLANFULNS,” BOBO SAID. “OVER THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED, SHE EXHIBED WHAT I N ONLY REGARD AS REALLY EXCEPTNAL CLARY OF PURPOSE, STEADS AT THE HELM, AND EXUD A REAL NFINCE THAT WE WERE GOG TO MAKE A VERY DIFFICULT SUATN WORK.”KELSEY AGREED.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE NEVER SEEMED SHAKEN BY THE PANMIC AND THE CHALLENG THAT POSED,” KELSEY SAID. “SHE KEPT THE TEAM TOGETHER.”HOCHSCHILD, WHO SERVED AS THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT CHAIR FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF GAY’S TENURE AS FAS AN, SAID GAY HAS “STRONG VIEWS.”“SHE’S NOT SHY ABOUT EXPRSG THEM OR ABOUT WANTG TO IMPLEMENT THEM WHEN WAS HER JOB TO MAKE A CISN HER ROLE AS AN,” HOCHSCHILD SAID. “BUT SHE’S VERY MTED TO PARTICIPATN THE PROCS OF REACHG THE RIGHT ANSWER.”SMH SCRIBED GAY AS A “STRAIGHTFORWARD” PERSON WHO IS “NOT PLAYG ANY GAM.”“SHE DON’T FEEL THE NEED TO HI ANY ASPECTS OF HERSELF, AND I DON’T SEE ANY REASON WHY SHE WOULD BEE SHE HAS SO MANY STRONG ATTRIBUT,” HE SAID.“YOU N’T PH HER AROUND, AND I THK THAT’S A FANTASTIC QUALY,” HE ADD.GAY GUID THE FAS THROUGH THE COVID-19 PANMIC AS AN AND "NEVER SEEMED SHAKEN," ACRDG TO DEAN OF ARTS AND HUMANI ROB E. KELSEY. BY JULIAN J. GRDANO‘GENUELY WARM’WHEN MOVG TO HASKS HALL AS A FIRST-YEAR GRADUATE STUNT AT HARVARD, GAY BROUGHT THE THREE THGS “THAT SEEMED MOST SENTIAL TO MY SUCCS AT THE TIME,” SHE SAID AT THE DECEMBER PRS NFERENCE: “A FUTON, A MAC CLASSIC II, AND A ST IRON SKILLET FOR YG PLANTAS.”GAY NTUED TO SHARE HER LOVE FOR OKG AT HARVARD SEVERAL S LATER AS A PROFSOR.ADVERTISEMENTHOCHSCHILD SAID THAT GAY WOULD VE THEIR WHOLE CLASS TO HER HOE AT THE END OF EVERY YEAR.“SHE WAS THE ONE WHO ANIZED AND BROUGHT LOTS AND LOTS OF FOOD AND MA SURE THAT EVERYBODY WAS ENGAGED AND TALKG,” SHE SAID.WHILE HOCHSCHILD SAID GAY WAS FUNNY AND A “VERY GOOD HOSTS,” GAY ALSO MATAED HER CLASSROOM PERSONA DURG THE RMAL GATHERGS.“SHE NEVER LOOSENED UP A WHOLE LOT, OR AT LEAST NOT BROAD PANY,” HOCHSCHILD SAID.KELSEY SAID GAY ALSO ENJOYS GOG ON NS AND EATG HOT LUNCH, ADDG THAT SHE “DO NOT LIKE A LD BUFFET.”WHE ALSO PRAISED GAY FOR BEG A “GENUELY WARM AND RG” MENTOR SPE HER HECTIC SCHLE.“SHE WAS GETTG PULLED A LN DIRECTNS,” WHE SAID. “BUT VARIABLY, WHEN I HAD A MEETG ON THE LENDAR WH HER, AND I GOT TO HER OFFICE, SHE HAD ALWAYS READ THE THG THAT I HAD SENT HER. SHE HAD THOUGHTFUL MENTS ON .”“DURG THAT TIME THAT WE WERE MEETG, WAS LIKE I WAS THE ONLY PERSON SHE HAD TO TALK TO THAT DAY,” WHE ADD.THE NEW FACE OF HARVARDWH GRE OM EXETER, STANFORD, AND HARVARD, GAY’S ASCENSN THROUGH THE RANKS OF AMIA SEEMED ALMOST EVABLE. HER , ROXANE GAY, REGNIZED THIS POTENTIAL CLDE GAY OM A YOUNG AGE.ADVERTISEMENT“I THK SHE WAS ALWAYS WELL-SUED FOR AMIA,” ROXANE GAY SAID. “SHE’S ALWAYS BEEN GRACLY CUR AND TERTED HOW THGS WORK AND HOW PEOPLE WORK AND HOW WE N DO THE BS OF LIFE BETTER.”ROXANE GAY SAID SHE KNEW HER ULD REACH THE TOP AMIA IF SHE SET HER MD ON , ADDG THAT SHE N’T IMAGE A BETTER PERSON TO SERVE AS “THE FACE AND THE HEART OF HARVARD THE PUBLIC SPHERE.”BOBO SAID THE PRINTIAL SEARCH MTEE MA THE RIGHT CISN BY FAR.“I DON’T THK THERE WAS ANYBODY ELSE WHO WAS GENUELY A CLOSE SEND,” HE SAID. “THIS WAS VERY FELY THE RIGHT OUTE — AND AN EXCG ONE.”ROXANE GAY ALSO REGNIZED THE HISTORY BEHD HER ’S SELECTN.“IT’S ALWAYS NICE WHEN STUTNS LIKE HARVARD THAT ARE SO STEEPED TRADN AND STEEPED RISTG CHANGE ARE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD AND BE A PART OF THE WORLD AS IS, STEAD OF AS ONCE WAS,” ROXANE GAY ADD.GAY MA HISTORY DECEMBER WHEN SHE WAS SELECTED AS HARVARD'S FIRST PRINT OF LOR S HISTORY. BY JULIAN J. GRDANOLEE, THE FIRST HIRE CLDE GAY’S ETHNIC STUDI FACULTY SEARCH, WROTE AN EMAILED STATEMENT THAT GAY IS THE PRINT THAT THE HARVARD STUNT BODY HAS “LONG AWAED AND RIGHTLY SERVE.”“WE OFTEN TOUT OUR STUNTS AS THE FUTURE LEARS OF THEIR MUNI AND OF THE WORLD, YET THE EXAMPLE OF FAR TOO MANY POSNS OF POWER TODAY IS PLORABLE AND MORALIZG,” LEE WROTE. “SO I AM ALSO FILLED WH HOPE FOR OUR STUNTS, WHO N NOW TAKE OM DEAN GAY AS PRINT A SHG EXAMPLE OF WHAT ETHIL, IMPACTFUL LEARSHIP N BE.”MORE THAN THREE S LATER AND THOANDS OF AWAY OM WHERE THEY ONCE LIVED KIMBALL HALL TOGETHER, ANGELA RICKFORD SAID SOME OF GAY’S CHARACTERISTICS HAVE NOT CHANGED.ADVERTISEMENT“SHE’S JT A WNER,” RICKFORD SAID. “ALWAYS WAS.”—STAFF WRER MIL J. HERSZENHORN N BE REACHED AT . FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER @MHERSZENHORN.—STAFF WRER CLAIRE YUAN N BE REACHED AT . 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Hochschild, a Prceton polics profsor at the time, relled tryg to rec Gay to the universy — only to have Gay choose Stanford stead, where she attaed tenure jt five g to Harvard, Hochschild got a send chance to persua Gay to work wh her 2006, when she served on another search mtee seekg to hire time, Hochschild then, Gay has had a meteoric rise through Harvard’s admistratn. 15, 2022, Gay was selected as the 30th Universy, 52, will make history on July 1, when she will bee the first person of lor and only the send woman to lead Ameri’s olst stutn of higher tn.

Grdano‘Outstandg From the Begng’In many ways, Gay is an sir the ele amic world, havg walked the halls of some of the natn’s most prtig stutns: Phillips Exeter Amy for high school, Prceton and Stanford for llege, and Harvard for graduate dghter of Haian immigrants, Gay was born and raised New York wh her olr brother, Sony Gay Jr. Where she lived Geia and Colorado, before attendg the ele preparatory high school Phillips Exeter Amy New Gay, Clde Gay’s first , said she believ the experience of growg up several untri and ci prepared her for a reer of adjtg to new circumstanc and challeng.

“She was outstandg om the begng, ” Angela Rickford Rickford said she remembered beg nervo that Gay would cle their offer — spe Kimball Hall beg a popular lotn for rint assistants — bee she expected everyone would try to hire Gay. ”Gay received “early tenure” at Stanford after publishg several articl that gaed wispread regnn before she was poached by Harvard 2006, acrdg to, pictured 2007, began teachg at Harvard 2006. “Her name me up wh lots of fantastic ments by many of her lleagu about the kds of skills and actns that she’d already been dog simply as a faculty member wh the Social Scienc, ” he relled beg “severely imprsed” by Gay durg the hirg procs and praised her diligence as an.

CLDE GAY

“My first thought was that Dean Gay should be our next print, ” he beme an of the Faculty of Arts and Scienc 2018 after only three years as a Harvard admistrator, a ltle over a after first jog the Universy as a profsor. Lee‘Receptive Instutnal Lear’As Gay prepar to move om Universy Hall to Massachetts Hall, lleagu said they expect tellectual and mographic diversy to be key ems on her highlighted faculty appotments and curriculum chang as important issu for Gay’s tenure. In an April 2022 terview, Gay said she supports the creatn of an unrgraduate ncentratn ethnicy, digeney, and Lee, a Government profsor who joed Harvard 2022 as part of the ethnic studi cler hire, wrote an emailed statement that he joed Harvard large part bee of Gay’s “visn for and learship on the Ethnicy, Indigeney, and Migratn iative.

CLDE GAY TO BE HARVARD’S 1ST BLACK PRINT, 2ND WOMAN

”“I am filled wh hope for the Universy and, no surprise, for the future of ethnic studi by her selectn as Harvard’s 30th print, ” Lee print, Gay will also face a s-old mand for an ethnic studi of the Social Scienc Lawrence D.

GajarawalaBobo said he would not be surprised to see the creatn of an ethnic studi partment durg Gay’s tenure, but said that is “not obv” to him that a partment is “the form ought to take. “I want people to be able to s down and sign knowg that — if they reach nsens on a plan and lay out the tellectual se for — knowg that they’re gog to have a very receptive stutnal lear Clde Gay. Harvard faculty also praised Gay’s learship of the FAS after the Covid-19 panmic forced stunts to part mp March poted to a meetg early March 2020 when Gay rmed FAS learship that mp would be closg and learng would shift onle.

Grdano‘Genuely Warm’When movg to Hasks Hall as a first-year graduate stunt at Harvard, Gay brought the three thgs “that seemed most sential to my succs at the time, ” she said at the December prs nference: “A futon, a Mac Classic II, and a st iron skillet for yg plantas. “She was the one who anized and brought lots and lots of food and ma sure that everybody was engaged and talkg, ” she Hochschild said Gay was funny and a “very good hosts, ” Gay also mataed her classroom persona durg the rmal gathergs. ”“Durg that time that we were meetg, was like I was the only person she had to talk to that day, ” Whe New Face of HarvardWh gre om Exeter, Stanford, and Harvard, Gay’s ascensn through the ranks of amia seemed almost evable.

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”Roxane Gay said she knew her uld reach the top amia if she set her md on , addg that she n’t image a better person to serve as “the face and the heart of Harvard the public sphere.

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“It’s always nice when stutns like Harvard that are so steeped tradn and steeped ristg change are able to move forward and be a part of the world as is, stead of as once was, ” Roxane Gay ma history December when she was selected as Harvard's first print of lor s history. As FAS an, Gay has guid efforts to expand stunt accs and opportuny, spur excellence and novatn teachg and rearch, enhance aspects of the FAS’s amic culture, and brg new emphasis and energy to areas such as quantum science and engeerg; climate change; ethnicy, digeney, and migratn; and the humani. A member of the Amerin Amy of Arts and Scienc, Gay has pursued her scholarship as a fellow at the Public Policy Instute of California, the Center for Advanced Study the Behavral Scienc, and the Radcliffe Instute for Advanced Study at Harvard.

“Clde is a remarkable lear who is profoundly voted to stag and enhancg Harvard’s amic excellence, to champng both the value and the valu of higher tn and rearch, to expandg opportuny, and to strengtheng Harvard as a fount of ias and a force for good the world, ” Penny Przker, senr fellow of the Harvard Corporatn and chair of Harvard’s printial search mtee, said a her speech, Gay lled for greater llaboratn among schools at Harvard and said there was an urgency for the universy be more engaged wh the world and to “brg bold, brave and pneerg thkg to our greatt challeng.

“At a time when everyone ntu to look at Harvard, this printial hire will arguably be one of the most signifint Amerin higher tn for years to e, ” Cole print of Harvard, Gay will shape cisns that n have impact at the lol, state and feral level, Cole said. Sce 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Fay Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc (FAS), the Universy’s largt and most amilly diverse faculty, spanng the blogil and physil scienc and engeerg, the social scienc, and the humani and arts. A quantative social scientist wh expertise polil behavr, Gay served as an assistant profsor and then tenured associate profsor at Stanford before beg reced to Harvard 2006 as a profsor of ernment.

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“Clde Gay b one person many of the attribut that will be required of Harvard’s new print, ” said Shirley Tilghman, who served as print of Prceton Universy om 2001 to 2013, is profsor emera of molecular blogy and public affairs at Prceton, and serv on the Harvard Corporatn.

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Reactg to Gay’s appotment, Ruth Simmons, print of Prairie View A&M Universy and print emera of Brown Universy, said, “In selectg Clde Gay as the next print, Harvard’s erng boards have monstrated a mment to ensurg that Harvard remas not only the preement universy the world but also the universy that leads wh creasg relevance to the world today. In addn, Gay has been engaged a range of amic and programmatic iativ, cludg as a leadg voice wh both the Amic Council and the Provost’s Council, the two prcipal Universy-wi foms for chartg stutnal prri and plans. Gay also has a ep mment to amic eedom, llg “the touchstone for everythg we are tryg to achieve, ” and has been a strong advote for clive excellence throughout her reer, cludg durg her anship.

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“Dean Gay’s abily to lead om prciple and valu, alongsi a natural stct to brg people together om across discipl and areas of expertise to addrs big challeng, will serve Harvard well the years to e, ” said Stubbs. “Clde Gay has monstrated visn to advance rearch and tn, ep mment to Harvard’s missn, temperament to listen and learn om the many rich sourc of expertise our faculty, and fortu to make difficult cisns.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Clde Gay is the dghter of Haian immigrants and the first Black woman to serve as Harvard's printHarvard Universy has named the first black person to lead the Ivy League universy. Dr Gay has "brought to her rol a rare blend of cisivens and clivens, tellectual range and strategic savvy, stutnal ambn and personal huy", said Penny Przker, a senr fellow of the Harvard Corporatn and the chair of Harvard's printial search mtee. Clde Gay will bee Harvard Universy’s 30th print, the school announced Thursday, endg a swift five-month search procs that will elevate a person of lor to lead Ameri’s olst amic stutn for the first time s, the current an of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc, will succeed Lawrence S.

Gay, 52, will take over atop the Universy jt as the Supreme Court is expected to issue a cisn on a high-stak affirmative actn lawsu agast Harvard that uld rhape admissns procs across Amerin higher will also be tasked wh steerg the Universy’s fanc through global enomic uncertaty ed by a post-panmic flatn spike, which precipated a $2.

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Her tenure is likely to clu a pal mpaign as the Universy approach s 400th a prs nference after her announcement on Thursday, Gay cled to elaborate about how Harvard might navigate a post-affirmative actn realy, sayg only that the Universy “will ntue to champn the value of diversy. Przker ’81, who chaired the printial search mtee, announced Gay’s electn an email to Harvard affiliat Thursday afternoon, hours after the Harvard Board of Overseers voted to nfirm the pick.

“We are nfint Clde will be a thoughtful, prcipled, and spirg print for all of Harvard, dited to helpg each of our dividual schools thrive, as well as fosterg creative nnectns among them, ” Przker 15-member mtee land on Gay after jt five months, makg the shortt Harvard printial hunt almost 70 years. The group met formally about 20 tim, Przker said public remarks Thursday, whtlg down an ial list of more than 600 dghter of Haian immigrants, Gay grew up New York and attend high school at Phillips Exeter Amy New Hampshire. ”{short-0978e3bb0eb999d543fd0087997e0a04a7fda3e0}As an, Gay has steered the FAS through the Covid-19 panmic and a stream of ntroversi related to sexual harassment and faculty amia wr large has grappled wh a reckong on sexual harassment and genr-based discrimatn the wake of the #MeToo movement, Gay levied sanctns agast several well-known profsors.

Dozens of high-profile profsors rallied to support Comaroff, qutng Gay’s sanctns an open letter before reversg urse jt days later after a feral lawsu agast Harvard outled years of misnduct allegatns agast anthropology also lnched a review of Harvard’s tenure procs after ethnic studi scholar Lia García Peña was nied tenure November 2019, promptg backlash om stunts and faculty.

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She has also worked to diversify the faculty, cludg by appotg an gural associate an of diversy, cln, and belongg the Gay walked to the Harvard Commons the Smh Camp Center on Thursday for the Universy’s public broadst, the room epted to applse.

(Stephanie Mchell/Harvard Universy via AP)Stephanie MchellBOSTON (AP) — Harvard Universy announced Thursday that Clde Gay will bee s 30th print, makg her the first Black person and the send woman to lead the Ivy League, who is currently a an at the universy and a mocracy scholar, will bee print July 1. Polil Cartoons“Clde is a remarkable lear who is profoundly voted to stag and enhancg Harvard’s amic excellence, to champng both the value and the valu of higher tn and rearch, to expandg opportuny, and to strengtheng Harvard as a fount of ias and a force for good the world, ” Penny Przker, senr fellow of the Harvard Corporatn and chair of Harvard’s printial search mtee, said a her speech, Gay lled for greater llaboratn among schools at Harvard and said there was an urgency for the universy be more engaged wh the world and to "brg bold, brave and pneerg thkg to our greatt challeng. History has been ma at Harvard Universy, as Clde Gay be the first person of lor — and send woman — to be named print of the universy reports that for the last 16 years, Gay, 52, has tght ernment and Ain and Ain Amerin Studi.

Acrdg to The Harvard Gazette, Gay was elected to the princy on December 15 by the Harvard Corporatn, the Universy's prcipal erng board, wh the nsent of the Universy's Board of Overseers. "Lookg back on the acplishments of the universy, om stris artificial telligence to climate and staabily, Gay exprsed her mment to ntue rryg on the "powerful legaci" of the lears who me before her.

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Days later, after more allegatns emerged agast the profsor, John Comaroff, nearly all the faculty members disavowed their oute of the unually public spat — surrenr by the challengg profsors, vditn for Gay — was unsurprisg to close observers of her reer, who scribed her as a eply thoughtful and unflappable lear who never mak a move whout first studyg her optns om every angle. ”Harvard profsors said that elevatg Gay, a polil scientist who has spent most of her reer at the universy and held learship rol for nearly a , the stutn has opted for an sir’s steady, rigoro, and studly unflamboyant learship as the school, and the higher tn dtry wr large, fac unmon challeng. In the weeks before Gay tak charge, the US Supreme Court is expected to outlaw affirmative actn llege admissns, privg Harvard and other selective schools of a tool they say is sential to admtg a racially diverse class.

The anticipated lg uld prove an existential threat to the kd of universy Harvard wants to be — and Gay to lead; at the least, would create a stern tt for her and her peers amic learship across the land, a hort that will be watchg tently to see how she meets at Harvard believe Gay uld prove the perfect match for the moment.