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Fareed Zakaria quits Yale board
Wednesday August 22, 2012 07:41:59 PM,
IANS
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New Haven (Connecticut): Hit by plagiarism charges, celebrated Indian-American
journalist Fareed Zakaria has resigned from the board of Ivy
League Yale University, citing the need to focus "on the core of
my work".
Zakaria, an editor-at-large at Time magazine and CNN host, has
been reinstated in both his jobs after a brief suspension after he
apologised for plagiarising a paragraph in The New Yorker for his
own column in Time magazine.
"My service at Yale is the single largest commitment of time,
energy, and attention outside of my writing and television work,"
Zakaria wrote in a letter to Richard C. Levin, president of the
New Haven, Connecticut-based university.
"The work of the Yale Corporation needs and deserves such
attention, but I simply do not have the capacity to do it and keep
up with my main professional obligations."
"I came to Yale as a scholarship kid from India in 1982 and
instantly fell in love with it. That affection has never waned. I
have tried to give back to the university a small measure of what
it gave me - devoting time, effort, and resources, as best I
could," Zakaria wrote.
"Serving for a term on the Yale Corporation has been an
extraordinary opportunity. I have learnt a great deal from it and
I will be shaped by this experience forever," he wrote.
In accepting Zakaria's resignation, Levin commented: "My
colleagues and I are deeply grateful for Fareed Zakaria's generous
contribution of time and service to the Yale Corporation these
past six years."
"His keen intelligence and broad knowledge of world affairs have
enlightened our discussions, and his appearances on campus have
benefitted our students and faculty. We will miss him as a
colleague, a contributor and a friend."
Early last week, Levin indicated that the Yale Corporation was in
the process of reviewing Zakaria's situation. In light of his
resignation, the review has been discontinued, according to New
Haven Register, which had editorially called for his resignation.
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