The downfall of college presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard and M. Elizabeth Magill of UPenn were the result of poor job performance, not cancel culture, notes Red Banyan Founder and CEO Evan Nierman in a recent op ed in The Messenger.

Evan, a cancel culture and crisis communications expert, points out that both “performed pitifully on Capitol Hill in December 2023 under questioning by Congress about antisemitism on campus. In addition, serious examples of alleged plagiarism by Gay make it impossible for her to stand by the quality of her own academic work and continue doing her job.”

Evan says in the piece that both “apparently brought these consequences on themselves by failing to demonstrate moral clarity and their unwillingness to be intellectually and morally honest.”

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