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.
Now they found out her resignation letter was plagiarized.
She’s still teaching there. If plagiarism is bad for admin, it is worse for teachers who are supposed to make sure their students don’t plagiarize.
RE: an additional complaint with nearly 50 allegations, including over half a dozen examples never seen before.
Great old quote:
“Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery” —Nelson DeMille
Few are emphasizing this :
Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard president, will remain on school faculty.
But the really big number is the percentage of rich alumni.
My friends please notice how the term ‘alleged’ is used. Saw it in the Yahoo version. They’re trying very hard to lighten the sting. The left doesn’t give us the innocent until proven guilty treatment. So what should happen on our end? How about an investigation and charges? We need a plaintiff willing to drive it home. The response will be racism. Fine. Go for it. Expose how affirmative action is being abused. Make sure Harvards’ reputation takes a big hit for producing phony intellectuals.
Believe me, she / it / him will show up for her 6 figure teaching job. She / it / him has no conscience. The student body is devoid of morals, character and will sign up for she / it / him classes in droves.
“Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard president, will remain on school faculty.”
Of course, the achool doesn’t want to make a scene. She will probably fade off into the sunset at some point. She has a reputation there that right now that is teetering. After a couple of news cycles maybe in a year or maybe 5 she’ll drift off to some other opportunity.
Gay looks mentally out of it from too many C19 vaxxxes and boosters. She’s kinda like the Joe Biden of Harvard.
The real story is not that she resigned, but that Harvard did not fire her.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Does she lose her PhD?
We now know she didn’t earn it.
This woman is the Lance Armstrong of Education.
Did Harvard claw back Liz Warren’s Law Professor salary?
Nope.
There are zero consequences for these blatant frauds.
Note the academics coming out in defense of plagiarism
Should not be a faculty member. She evil & incompetent.
Imagine that 90% of the cyclists were drugged up....
That is the current state of Affirmative Action “education” land these days when it comes to plagiarism and fake credentials.
Next step: abolish the DEI bureaucracy
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