Billionaire Bill Ackman Calls Harvard Board to Resign, Citing DEI as Root Cause

Billionaire Bill Ackman called members of the Harvard Corporation, the school’s governing Board, to step down following the departure of its former president, Claudine Gay, over plagiarism accusations and the anti-Semitism on campus congressional hearing. “The Corporation Board should not remain in their seats protected by the unusual governance structure which enabled them to obtain their seats,” said Mr. Ackman, a Harvard graduate in his X post on Jan. 3. Mr. Ackman criticized Harvard’s leadership for failing to address problems around its former president that have caused damage to the reputation of one of the world’s top universities. “The Board Chair, Penny Pritzker, should resign along with the other members of the board who led the campaign to keep Claudine Gay, orchestrated the strategy to threaten the media, bypassed the process for evaluating plagiarism, and otherwise greatly contributed to the damage that has been done,” Mr. Ackman said....