Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman says Harvard president Claudine Gay was hired because of the school’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative, rather than “identifying the best leaders for our prestigious universities.”
“I learned from someone with first-person knowledge of the Harvard president search that the committee would not consider a candidate who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria,” Ackman wrote in a post on X/Twitter Thursday of the Harvard president, who is black.
I learned from someone with first person knowledge of the @Harvard president search that the committee would not consider a candidate who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria.
The same was likely true for other elite universities doing searches at the same time, creating an…
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 7, 2023
“The same was likely true for other elite universities doing searches at the same time, creating an even more limited universe of DEI-eligible presidential candidates,” Ackman continued in his post.
Bill Ackman, chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in New…
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