Posted on 01/02/2024 3:29:47 PM PST by george76
She took no responsibility for the plagiarism allegations nor the state of campus hatred toward Jews and Israel.
Despite the resignation as university president, Ms. Gay will remain a Harvard faculty member.
The school’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, first reported the resignation. Ms. Gay’s tenure was just over six months and is the shortest in the 387-year history of the school.
Ms. Gay has been accused of plagiarism stemming from her career in academia.
According to a report from The Washington Free Beacon, there were six new plagiarism charges against Ms. Gay in a report submitted anonymously to the school’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi Hoekstra, the Research Integrity Office, and the Committee on Professional Conduct.
The plagiarism scandal began when conservative activist and Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet flagged instances of plagiarism from her Ph.D. dissertation, titled “Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies.”
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whistleblower accused Ms. Gay of plagiarism in both her publications and dissertation, calling on the university to open a “new research misconduct inquiry.”
“Now I am forced to submit an additional complaint with nearly 50 allegations, including over half a dozen examples never seen before,”
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Some of them occur in a publication by Gay that was until now believed to be free from allegations of plagiarism. Others occur in the dissertation.”
The first complaint, which came at a uniquely troubled time when Ms. Gay’s much-criticized remarks at a congressional hearing on anti-Semitism drew widespread doubt on her fitness for the presidency, involved seven of her 17 published works.
The second complaint now points to an eighth publication, a 2001 article that allegedly borrowed material verbatim from David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Specifically, the new complaint alleged that Ms. Gay took four unquoted sentences from Mr. Canon’s 1999 book “Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts,” and used them in her article “The Effect of Minority Districts and Minority Representation on Political Participation in California.”
While Ms. Gay did include Mr. Canon in the bibliography, she did not cite him anywhere in or near the passage,
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The dissertation allegedly lifted a full sentence from Harvard political science professor Gary King’s 1997 book, “A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data.”
Mr. King served as Ms. Gay’s thesis adviser.
“Ms. Gay does not cite King here and uses no quotation marks around verbatim language,” the complaint stated.
This would add to the three corrections in Ms. Gay’s dissertation that were announced last month following a review of her published scholarship by the Harvard Corporation, the university’s highest governing body.
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A letter signed by the Fellows of Harvard College, the university’s governing board, expressed appreciation for Ms. Gay’s service.
Alan M. Garber, provost and chief academic officer, will serve as interim president, and that the search for Ms. Gay’s successor “will begin in due course.”
The letter did not address the plagiarism or antisemitism controversies.
Antisemitism Hearing..
Ms. Gay’s resignation comes a month after controversial testimony before Congress on antisemitism on college campuses amid the latest conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.
When asked by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), chairwoman of the House GOP, if calling for genocide against Jews is bullying or harassment, Ms. Gay demurred.
“It can be, depending on the context,” she said.
“Anti-Semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct, that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct, and we do take action,” added Ms. Gay.
Ms. Gay later issued a statement apologizing for her answers.
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Ms. Stefanik, during the hearing, called for Ms. Gay’s resignation. In a statement, she celebrated her stepping down, calling it “long overdue.”
“Claudine Gay’s morally bankrupt answers to my questions made history as the most viewed Congressional testimony in the history of the U.S. Congress,” she said.
“Her answers were absolutely pathetic and devoid of the moral leadership and academic integrity required of the President of Harvard.”
Ms. Stefanik, a Harvard alum, called the resignation “just the beginning of what will be the greatest scandal of any college or university in history.”
In late November, the U.S. Department of Education announced an investigation into Harvard in light of antisemitism on its campus, which includes 3,200 Jewish undergraduate and graduate students, making up almost 27 percent of the student population.
You are correct, see my post #40, she keeps her $900K salary.
“She steps down from the position, but will STILL GET PAID her $900K salary”
True, but Hah-vard lost millions from the rich alumni donations.
Her letter of resignation begins:
“I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body....”
There was a report that they asked her to resign and she refused (and threatened litigation if she was fired).
Don’t underestimate the damage to her ego. Her last gig was a dean so she dropped several pegs.
She will continue with her $890,000 salary.
Wow.
Those young heads full of mush (-—Rush’s term) are paying to hear her words of wisdom and the college pays $900,000 to keep it going?
Babylon Bee could take a stab at this—showing her resignation letter stole from Mein Kampf!
;-)
All she has to do is put on a hoodie and she’s a shoe in.
And the shoe will be an Air Jordan from the bottom of her closet.
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