This is CNN breaking news.

We have breaking news just into CNN.

Harvard president Claudine Gay is set to resign.

The toppling of Claudine Gay from the presidency of Harvard University.

Her resignation brings an end to the shortest presidency in the university's history.

Well, the whole episode was about a lot of things.

She flailed under the public scrutiny of the school's response to allegations of

anti-Semitism.

Her critics raped her past work and found instances of plagiarism.

When she finally resigned, it became pretty clear the campaign was also very much about

something else.

Claudine Gay was the symbol of the DEI regime that has conquered American academic life.

They prioritize race and sex or ancestry and anatomy over scholarly merit, over fairness,

over equality, over every other principle.

This is conservative activist Christopher Rufo, and he talks online about how conservatives

can be most effective countering the mainstreaming of progressive movements.

He's now known as the architect of several media campaigns against trans rights, wokeism,

and critical race theory.

And that's why I fought so hard both exposing the plagiarism

and also putting pressure on Harvard

to topple her

because I knew that we were going to expose their contradictions.

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