Harvard University said Wednesday night that a newly disclosed review found additional instances of inadequate citation in president Claudine Gay’s writings.
This was hours after a congressional committee announced inquiry into how Harvard handled allegations of plagiarism against Gay.
The summary said, “President Gay will update her dissertation correcting these instances of inadequate citation.”
Those instances add to other cases of “inadequate citation” in two of Gay’s academic articles, which the university’s key oversight board, the Harvard Corporation, acknowledged last week. Gay has since submitted correction requests to the journals that published those articles, a university spokesperson said.
The summary also stated that Harvard learned on October 24 that the New York Post “was pursuing a story on allegations of plagiarism against President Gay.”
At Gay’s request, the Corporation then commissioned an independent review by outside experts of the allegations, the summary said. Meanwhile, a four-member subcommittee of the Corporation reviewed Gay’s published work from 1993 to 2019, it stated.
Harvard said that “a finding of research misconduct requires that . . . the respondent committed the research misconduct intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly,” according to the rules that were used for the review, known as the Interim Policy and Procedures for Responding to Allegations of Research Misconduct. The allegation must be “proven by preponderance of the evidence.”
