“I give the board an F,” said William Tierney, founding director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. The Harvard Corporation’s role in the debacle that culminated in Claudine Gay resigning her presidency after six months in office has left the university’s top governing body at an inflection point that will demand it either commit to change or allow detractors to chip away at the school’s reputation, education and governance experts said. They’re among the most powerful people at one of the most powerful universities in the world, and they’re now targets of criticism...