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Fellow graduate calls her ‘smart’ and ‘humble’

Former Harvard University president Claudine Gay recently won a “leadership and courage” award from a black alumni association.

The award comes after Gay resigned in January following criticism for her responses to campus antisemitism as well as numerous plagiarism allegations.

The Crimson reported:

The Harvard Black Alumni Society awarded former Harvard President Claudine Gay its award for “Leadership and Courage” on Saturday at the first University-wide Black alumni conference in more than a decade.

After receiving the award, Gay delivered remarks to the hundreds of alumni who gathered in Sanders Theater for the event — a rare keynote speech delivered by Gay since her resignation in January.

“She’s humble, she’s smart, she’s — fortunately — someone that still is affiliated with the University, and has pledged her support to it to her dying day,” attendee Thomas Stewart said, according to the student newspaper. He “overlapped with Gay at Harvard while they were both Ph.D. students in Government,” according to the student newspaper.

Gay’s resignation followed her apathetic response to questions asked by New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik if “calling for the genocide of Jews” violated the schools’ codes of conduct. The response also took down University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill.

She was not only the first black president in school history but had the shortest tenure.

Despite her documented problems with citing her sources in the few academic papers she wrote, the university slotted her to reach a “research” course this fall, as The College Fix previously reported.

Gay also reportedly continues to get paid nearly $1 million.

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