MIT facing pressure as sights set on university president

Published January 9, 2024 5:00am ET



Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman added fuel to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology fire this week, targeting the prestigious school in a plagiarism investigation amid calls for its president to resign.

Pressure on MIT President Sally Kornbluth has been growing since she testified before Congress last month and drew ire from conservatives who found her responses to pro-Hamas protests on her campus inadequate.

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