WATCH: Elise Stefanik SLAMS Harvard For Refusing To Oust Embattled President - 'Complete Moral Failure'

On Tuesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) slammed Harvard University for refusing to fire embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay following her lackluster testimony in front of Congress last week and the subsequent public pressure to fire the academic. 

During her congressional testimony last week, Gay said that university students who chant genocidal slogans would not be breaking school codes of conduct based on the "context" of their speech. Gay has also been accused of extensive plagiarism by journalist Christopher Rufo, a fact that has been reportedly known since October but has only recently come into the public eye. The accusation, more than her abysmal testimony, is what could eventually lead to her ouster. However, the Harvard Corporation, the top committee deciding her fate, announced their support of Gay.

"In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay. At Harvard, we champion open discourse and academic freedom, and we are united in our strong belief that calls for violence against our students and disruptions of the classroom experience will not be tolerated," the Fellows of Harvard Corporation wrote. "Harvard's mission is advancing knowledge, research, and discovery that will help address deep societal issues and promote constructive discourse, and we are confident that President Gay will lead Harvard forward toward accomplishing this vital work."

In response to the decision, Stefanik ripped Harvard leadership for allowing the "complete moral failure" of allowing Gay to remain as the university's president. "There is a reason why the testimony at the Education Workforce Committee garnered one billion views worldwide, and it's because those university presidents made history by putting the most morally bankrupt testimony into the Congressional Record, and the world saw it," Stefanik said, per Fox News. "As a Harvard graduate, I'm reminded of Harvard's motto, Veritas, which goes back – and it's older than the founding of our country, it goes back to the 1640s. In addition, the motto was Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae – Truth for Christ and the Church."

"Larry Summers, who was president of Harvard when I was an undergrad, talked about the meaning of Veritas is divine truth, moral truth. Let me be clear. Veritas does not depend on the context. This is a moral failure of Harvard's leadership and higher education leadership at the highest levels, and the only change they have made to their code of conduct, where they failed to condemn calls for genocide of the Jewish people, the only update to the code of conduct is to allow a plagiarist as the president of Harvard," she added.

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