Embattled Harvard President, Claudine Gay, is again facing plagiarism allegations, prompting a call for a more extensive investigation.
There’s a growing list of academics who ask for the resignation of Gay, who also embarrassed herself while being investigated by the House regarding antisemitism.
The university admitted to finding “a few instances of inadequate citation,” but then concluded that she did not violate research misconduct standards.
It suggested that Gay will make corrections to two published works. The controversy arose after questions were raised about her PhD dissertation on social media.
She plagiarized from scholar Anne Williamson.
“It does look like plagiarism to me,” Williamson said.
“If they are going to do what they did, then I should be cited as a reference. My first reaction is shock. The second reaction is puzzlement. There was a way to draw from my paper. All she had to do is give me a credit.”
The situation adds to criticism of Gay’s congressional testimony on Harvard’s response to anti-Semitism.
There is every reason to conclude that she was hired for the wrong reasons and not fired for the same wrong reasons.
Harvard points proudly to her being the first African American woman to service as president in its nearly 400-year history.
But who would really want that to be one’s key qualification–or the reason it’s so difficult to be fired?
The problem with race-based affirmative action is not what it denies Whites or Asians, but what it denies its supposed beneficiaries: honest criticism, advancement or failure based on accomplishment or its lack.
