Published December 26, 2023
House Republicans announced they were widening their investigation into Claudine Gay as plagiarism allegations continue to mount
Calls are growing on the left for Harvard President Claudine Gay to step down after she was accused of dozens of instances of plagiarism in her past scholarly writings.
Liberal Washington Post columnist and associate editor Ruth Marcus added to the pile up with her opinion column Saturday entitled, “Harvard’s Claudine Gay should resign.”
In it, the columnist said she had initially dismissed Gay’s critics, believing they were motivated by politics and “no small dose of racism.” While she still felt this to be true, Marcus begrudgingly acknowledged the academic’s problematic “track record.”
“She plagiarized her acknowledgments. I take no joy in saying this, but Harvard President Claudine Gay ought to resign,” she wrote. “Her track record is unbefitting the president of the country’s premier university. Remaining on the job would send a bad signal to students about the gravity of her conduct.”
“The instances of problematic citation in the work of Gay, a political scientist, have become too many to ignore,” she wrote.
Marcus cited the Washington Free Beacon’s reporting finding that Gay had copied full sentences and entire paragraphs with just one or two words changed in “at least 10” of the instances of alleged plagiarism. Over 40 additional charges of alleged plagiarism were dropped against the school leader the Free Beacon reported on December 20.
“The full list of examples spans seven of Gay’s publications — two more than previously reported — which comprise almost half of her scholarly output,” the outlet said.
Gay also stands accused of copying her colleagues’ work for her 1997 doctoral dissertation without attribution, Marcus wrote.
“That’s not sloppiness. That’s plagiarism,” the columnist argued. She pointed to the elite university’s own strict guidelines on plagiarism to conclude that Gay was not being held to the same standards that students are expected to follow.
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SOURCE: www.foxnews.com
RELATED: Even the Far Left Journal ‘The Atlantic’ is Ripping Harvard for Defending Plagiarist President Claudine Gay
Published December 25, 2023
Harvard President Claudine Gay is coming under increasing scrutiny due to a serious plagiarism scandal.
It has gotten to the point where even progressive outlets like The Atlantic can no longer ignore the scope of it and are being forced to call upon Harvard for accountability.
Students are held to stricter standards than Gay currently enjoys and it’s obvious to everyone, including the left.
FOX News reports:
Liberal Atlantic mag rips Harvard for not holding president accountable on plagiarism: ‘Betrayed’ its values
Far left outlet The Atlantic ripped Harvard University for not doing enough to hold its president Claudine Gay responsible for her recent scandals, particularly her plagiarism scandal.
The Atlantic’s contributing writer Eliot Cohen, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard and was a former administrator there, blasted the school’s board in a Friday article, claiming that it should be in a “tougher spot” for not holding Gay accountable for plagiarism.
He declared that Gay’s alleged behavior, which he argued was “indisputable,” is “disqualifying” for her leadership role and that she needs to leave her office.
Harvard has been grappling with an avalanche of accusations that Gay plagiarized multiple past academic works, including her own Ph.D. dissertations at the university. The school president had already been under fire after dodging questions on antisemitism on college campuses during a House hearing on the issue by the Education and Workforce Committee.
In the piece, Cohen noted how when he was hired as an assistant professor Harvard, after he was a Ph.D. student, “Harvard then took plagiarism seriously – and in one way still does, disciplining dozens of students every year for this gravest of academic sins.”
He described how students found guilty of the transgression – “those who had lifted someone else’s language without quotation marks or citation – were bounced from the college for a year, during which time they were required to work at a nonacademic job.”
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
RELATED:Harvard’s board facing pressure to resign as Ivy League university’s reputation takes ‘substantial hit’
Published December 25, 2023
Harvard’s governing board is facing calls from faculty to resign, as critics say the university’s reputation has taken a “substantial hit” over its response to President Claudine Gay’s plagiarism scandal and how she handled a congressional hearing on antisemitism.
Faculty members have urged the Harvard Corporation, the university’s secretive board, to resign or apologize — and one professor has proposed that state lawmakers should appoint one seat to represent the public, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
“They’re under pressure, that’s obvious,” former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier told the newspaper. “They are the fiduciary body and no one will deny that Harvard’s reputation has taken a very substantial hit in the world.
“It’s on their watch that it’s happening,” he added.
Kit Parker, professor of bioengineering and applied physics, also said the university’s future is in jeopardy and that the board members need to step down.
“The big question now is, how arrogant is Harvard? And when I say Harvard, I mean the Harvard Corporation. Do they think this is going to go away?” Parker told the paper.
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SOURCE: www.nypost.com
