Harvard President Claudine Gay to resign, Crimson and Globe report

Harvard's embattled president Claudine Gay will step down Tuesday afternoon, according to campus newspaper The Harvard Crimson.

The Boston Globe is also reporting that Gay will step down Tuesday. Both outlets are citing anonymous sourcing.

Harvard did not immediately return POLITICO's request for comment. The university and the Harvard Corporation, which oversees the university, had previously stood by Gay in public statements.

The news comes as Gay remains a subject of political and congressional scrutiny after her widely panned appearance before the House Education and Workforce Committee in December. It also follows a barrage of allegations that Gay, who completed her doctorate at Harvard in 1997 and taught at the university, plagiarized passages of other scholars' writings in her dissertation and other academic papers.