Le Nouvelliste introduced that Harvard College appointed Claudine Homosexual as its president, “within the midst of a debate on the Supreme Court docket on Affirmative Motion.” She is the primary black president of the establishment. Dr. Homosexual will take workplace on July 1, 2023, on the college, situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Daughter of Haitian immigrants, professor of African and African American Research, Claudine Homosexual is taken into account a specialist in minority insurance policies.
“Ms. Homosexual is a devoted instructor and mentor whose lessons have lined subjects resembling racial and ethnic politics in america, black politics within the post-civil rights period, American political behaviors, and democratic citizenship,” writes the college, saying her appointment on its web site.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she additionally based and directed the Harvard Inequality Initiative in America, “a multidisciplinary effort to energise Harvard’s instructing and analysis on social and financial inequality,” underlines Penny Pritzker, head of the choice committee of the brand new president. She is at present Dean of the School of Sciences and Social Sciences.
Her appointment, which got here after a strategy of a number of months, producing greater than 600 purposes, was introduced as Harvard—first within the Shanghai Rating’s Educational Rating of World Universities (ARWU) for twenty years—is on the coronary heart of a significant debate on affirmative motion on the middle of the very conservative Supreme Court docket of america. [. . .]
Excerpts translated by Ivette Romero. For full article (in French), see https://lenouvelliste.com/article/239540/claudine-gay-fille-dimmigres-haitiens-nommee-presidente-de-la-prestigieuse-universite-harvard
Additionally see https://www.cbsnews.com/information/claudine-gay-selected-first-black-president-harvard-university/, https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/15/metro/claudine-gay-named-next-president-harvard-university/, and https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/us/harvard-president-claudine-gay.html