View in browser   PRESENTED BY THE BOEING COMPANY   Axios PM By Mike Allen · Jan 02, 2024 🧤Happy Tuesday! Today's PM — edited by Noah Bressner      1 big thing: Harvard prez falls Harvard University President Claudine Gay speaks during a House hearing last month. Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Four weeks after a disastrous appearance at a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, Harvard University President Claudine Gay announced her resignation today. Why it matters: Intense pressure from Harvard's Jewish community, donors and Congress — combined with a drip, drip, drip of plagiarism allegations — pushed her to become the second Ivy League president to resign in the last month. What's happening: Gay, who started as the school's president six months ago, will be the shortest-tenured leader in Harvard history, Axios' April Rubin writes. She'll return to the school's faculty. 🔎 Zoom in: Plagiarism allegations against Gay — unearthed by conservative activists — have snowballed since her testimony on Dec. 5. The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication, writesthat nearly 50 allegations of plagiarism have emerged. An internal Harvard investigation found instances of "duplicative language without appropriate attribution," The Harvard Crimson reports. Gay requested three corrections to her dissertation, published in 1997. Between the lines: Republican lawmakers celebrated Gay's resignation as a victory for the House GOP's investigations, Axios' Andrew Solender writes. University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned in the immediate aftermath of the House hearing. But MIT President Sally Kornbluth appears secure in her role. 🔮 What's next: Harvard's provost Alan Garber will serve as interim president. The school's governing board said the search for a new one "will begin in due course."