It has been revealed by Christopher Rufo and Chris Brunet that Harvard University president Claudine Gay plagiarized sections of her PhD disertation. These revelations come after Gay defended antisemitism on campus after having condemned so-called misgendering and failure to use preferred pronouns.
Rufo and Brunet reported unequivocally that Gay’s dissertation in defense of her doctoral degree “Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies,” published in 1997, “contains at least three problematic patterns of usage and citation.” They found that her disertation lifted “an entire paragraph nearly verbatim” from a previous paper from authors Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam called “Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment
Rufo and Brunet note that while she cites those authors and their paper, “she uses their verbatim language, with a few trivial synonym substitutions, without providing quotation marks.” This, they say, violates Harvard’s policy on plagiarism, as doees her further use of language from Richard Shingles, Susan Howell, and Deborah Fagan, as well as additional material from Dr. Carol Swain, and Gary King.
Swain responded to the allegations that Gay had plagiarized her work, saying “I just learned of @realchrisrufo analysis of #ClaudineGay’s work and the allegations of plagiarism. I have not read the articles or books in question. However, two things come to mind: imitation is said to be the highest form of flattery and secondly Dr. Gay’s committee, reviewers, and colleagues should have caught these alleged transgressions. I will issue a statement after I have more information. Right now it seem like she is a victim of the ‘Adversity of Diversity.'”
This, Rufo shows, is a further violation of Harvard’s policy against “verbatim plagiarism.” He calls for an investigation into Gay’s work by Harvard’s Board of Overseers and for Gay to resign, or be voted out by the board.
Bill Ackman, a major Harvard donor who has since stopped giving money to the school and has spoken out against Gay and the antisemitism at the school said that he had spoken to a senior faculty member at the school who said that yes, the allegation of plagiarism were “credible.” Earlier in the week, Bill Ackman claimed that Gay was a “diversity hire,” saying that he “learned from someone with first-person knowledge of the Harvard president search that the committee would not consider a candidate who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria.”
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