Harvard University named Claudine Gay as first black president

Harvard University named Claudine Gay as first black president: Claudine Gay, a dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was chosen the new president of Harvard University. She is the first African American to hold the post at the prestigious university. Gay, 52, is just the second woman to be elected to head the school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, will take over as the university’s 30th president on July 1, 2023.

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About Claudine Gay:

Gay, a Harvard graduate who is the daughter of Haitian immigrants, graduated from Stanford and was awarded the Toppan Prize for the finest political science dissertation in 1998. Gay was elected to the presidency by the Harvard Corporation, the university’s principal governing board.

She will be succeeding current Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow, who announced he was retiring in June after five years at the helm. His predecessor, historian Drew Gilpin Faust, was the first woman to serve as Harvard president since its founding in 1636.