The House Committee on Education and Workforce has decided to include allegations of plagiarism against President Claudine Gay in its investigation into Harvard.
The investigation started due to the school’s horrible reaction to the antisemitism on its campus.
Gay now faces around 40 allegations of plagiarism in her works, including her dissertation.
“Does Harvard hold its faculty and academic leadership to the same standards?” Chairman Virginia Foxx asked Penny Pritzker, head of Harvard’s governing board.
The Washington Free Beacon received new allegations of plagiarism against Harvard President Claudine Gay from Stacey Springs, the school’s research integrity officer.
The new allegations include those already reported by the Washington Free Beacon and Christopher Rufo.
In October, someone gave the New York Post information about Harvard investigating claims of allegations of plagiarism in Gay’s work. The publication said the school used power attorneys to protect Gay.
The cases allege “Gay quoted or paraphrased authors without proper attribution,” including “missing quotation marks around a few phrases or sentences to entire paragraphs lifted verbatim.
“As you know, federal funding to Harvard is conditioned upon the school’s adherence to the standards of a recognized accreditor,” continued Foxx. “Harvard’s accrediting body, the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE), maintains Standards for Accreditation (Standards) that emphasize the paramount importance of academic and institutional integrity.”
Foxx added: “Compliance with these standards is a requirement to maintain accreditation. Specifically, an accredited institution must demonstrate that it ‘works to prevent cheating and plagiarism as well as to deal forthrightly with any instances in which they occur.'”
Foxx pointed out that Harvard has held its students to high standards regarding plagiarism:
Harvard does hold its students to these high academic and ethical standards: in the 2021-22 school year, the Harvard College Honor Council investigated 42 incidents of plagiarism, 35 allegations of exam cheating, and 19 other Honor Code violations.12 70 of these 100 cases resulted in a finding of responsibility, and 46resulted in academic probation or mandatory withdrawal. Again, does Harvard hold its faculty – and its own president – to the same standards?
Our concern is that standards are not being applied consistently, resulting in different rules for different members of the academic community. If a university is willing to look the other way and not hold faculty accountable for engaging in academically dishonest behavior, it cheapens its mission and the value of its education. Students must be evaluated fairly, under known standards – and have a right to see that faculty are, too.
The committee wants Pritzker to hand over all documents and communications from the first “independent review” of the plagiarism allegations, punishment of students who plagiarized, any guidelines or policies not available to the public, and anything with the New England Commission of Higher Education.
It looks like Gay even plagiarized the acknowledgments in her dissertation.
This is incredible: In her dissertation, Claudine Gay plagiarized the language of her acknowledgment from the acknowledgment of another scholar, without citing the source. She couldn't even say "thank you" without plagiarizing the language. pic.twitter.com/UcztaGBUzn
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 19, 2023
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Will Congress roast her?
They barely got 40 repubs to sign a demand not to dismantle the statue in Arlington. Do you think these spineless rinos will roast her?
Who cares. There are vastly more important things for this House to focus on, while they still have a slight majority. Defunding DOJ/Jack Smith lawfare? How about investigating the constitutionality of his special counsel status? How about turning up the heat on the DOJ/Democrat coordination with state prosecutors and the 14th amendment BS? Just scratches the surface on things vastly, by several orders of magnitude more important, than the racist, plagiarist clown Harvard chooses as its president. In fact, let Harvard employ as many racist plagiarists as it wants. I have no interest in saving that wretched anti-Semitic place from itself.
I agree with what you say, still Gay is a poster example of Affirmative BS and should be publicly destroyed. Consider her low hanging fruitcake. There is so much which must be done.
There will be some uncomfortable questions asked (which the media will decry as racist / misogynistic/ etc.). But that’s about it.
A WSJ op-ed piece this morning pointed out what many of us have been saying all along: Harvard can never fire Gay, because to do so would be an admission of the reality that when you lower standards in the name of DEI / CRT / AA / etc., you get less qualified people who typically perform at a lesser level.
Everyone who has seen affirmative action in operation (especially in academia) knows this to be true. But admitting this reality (or even collecting the data that would conclusively prove it) is verboten because that would be heresy to the gospel of wokeism.
So someone like Gay gets admitted to Harvard due to AA. She then must graduate no matter how mediocre her performance was, because to allow her to fail would contradict the Narrative. She then must be admitted to Harvard grad school, get her PhD, get hired as faculty, get tenured, etc for the same reasons — no matter how poor her performance, she must be lauded and promoted in the name of the Narrative: that affirmative action admits / hires magically turn out to be just as good as merit-based admits / hires. And, of course, she then gets the top job for the same reason. Once you start the affirmative action merry-go-round in academia, it never stops.
Now that it it absolutely clear that the Harvard Empress’ clothing is nothing but mediocrity that would not have gotten her hired (much less tenured) at a second tier state college, Harvard can either apply a neutral yardstick to her actions (which would almost certainly require her removal), or they can double down on the fantasy that she is actually qualified for the job. It’s clear they will choose the latter.
They will double down. It’s the epitome of hypocrisy. The only standards liberals have are double standards. They have become a laughingstock. They surely know this. But do they care?
Not yet, because they don’t consider the opinions of lesser beings to be worth bothering with for the most part. However, they are also vain enough to eventually attempt to put critics back in their proper place, using standard Wokish counterattacks, such as cancellation, harassment by student drones, virtue shaming, and exclusion from Academic Holy Sites and the hierarchy of privilege. They will persist with this until the suffering of the masses reaches a tipping point, as it does every century or so, culminating in another French or Russian type culling of their ranks via guillotine or firing squad. Then the cycle repeats, ad infinitum.
Black, Leftist, Female, public supporter of the academic anti-Semetic line. Nothing will be allowed to happen to her.
Subotai Bahadur
The Nomenklatura won’t let anything happen to her. If the rules can come for her, they can come for them too.
What’s the point of being juiced in if you can’t get away with stufff?
Academic integrity is a white academic standard. The rule for blacks is that they’re expected and encouraged to do anything that makes them look smarter and whites agree to accept it as proving smartness. As anybody can see.
Congress is just worried about upsetting the Jews, not integrity.
Claudine Gay sent Congress a note explaining everything:
“Please excuse my daughter, Claudine, for having plagiarized. She was kidnapped by the jet set and tied up on a lawn in Hyannis Port and forced to copy other people’s papers.
Thank you,
Claudine’s Mother”
You can see how words change their meaning over time.
At one time gay meant cheerful Then it came to denote a homosexual person. Now it means a person who plagiarizes excessively.
Or perhaps a cheerful homosexual plagiarizer?
“Hey, I was promised I’d get all the perks of black privilege. It’s right there in my contract. I don’t like being on the hot seat.”
Roots author alex haley was caught and had to pay big money. Check out the ones listed in the article.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/claudine_gay_isnt_the_first_or_worst_example_of_black_plagiarism_privilege.html
Well, obviously, she’s bucking for her next job as plagarist in chief.
Does anyone know when Claudine Gay was actually born – and where? Wikipedia (which I hate to go to) doesn’t know if it was 1969 or 1970. Some sites claim that she was born in New York on August 4, 1970 while others claim that she was born in Boston on November 26, 1969. That’s pretty weird.
The child of Haitians (no mention if they were legal, which might be the source of this really weird birthday issue – not seen since Barky, really) it appears that this is another one that grew up abroad – in Saudi Arabia. Hard to find many specifics of her life, though. She went to Exeter Academy … that’s pretty odd, too. Her father “worked for”(?) the Army Corps of Engineers and her mother was a nurse … and she’s not too smart on her own, so I don’t know how that all happened. Exeter could have found someone actually smart to give some sort of charity scholarship to.
Haiti = average IQ 82, pretty dull.
This is the problem when you hire based on AA and not the merits. How embarrassing. I predict that Congresscritter Bowman will pull another fire alarm during any hearing – you know, protection of the species.
Sigh. Once again, Bowman pulling the fire alarm had nothing to do with the vote going on at that time in the House of Representatives. There is no way he could have thought that pulling his stunt could possibly affect the vote. There was no reason anyone in the House would even be aware of it, and indeed nobody was.
There is every reason to believe he intended to disrupt the House. His actions speak for themselves and disclose his obvious intent. But, as I noted above, this falls under the who cares category given the vastly more important matters this House should look at.
Are you sure that he is not so dumb that he could have thought it would impact the vote?
Negro attitude is what I dislike. Their content of character is like a trail of ruin.
When will Harvard stop digging?
Harvard=Budweiser
Yeah, but does the Congress have time to spare with all the congressy stuff they are doing? I mean, their hands are full just with writing up articles of impeachment against Biden and the DHS Secretary. Not to mention the hearings on weaponizing government and the defunding legislation arising from it does take a bit of time (what’s it now? two years?). Then there is the corruption investigation of the Bidens and that needs to be tied to the articles of impeachment and… whew!
Will Harvard protect a real black woman as forcefully as a fake Indian?
Much as I love watching insufferable Marxists getting hoisted on their own petard, can someone inform me what legitimate power was granted to Congress or the Federal Government in the Constitution that justifies any involvement in education?
Hah-Vaad receives several dollars per year that has been confiscated from the tax-paying producers living in this country. Like it or not, it’s the responsibility of our elected representatives to attempt to insure that those funds are not misappropriated. They’re ‘really’ good at that responsibility I’ve noted.
“Wokeism” is more about appearance rather than competence, symbolism rather than ability, appeasement rather than scrutiny. “Wokeism” would rather lower the river than raise the bridge. Soothing bruised egos is more important than striving for excellence. Promoting the incompetent does not equate with equality. Harvard is a classic example of “intellect” and inferiority triumphing over common sense. Civilization does not improve under such rationalization and mores the pity.
Maybe requiring a POC to have original thoughts and being able to convey them in proper context is a perfect example of ‘systemic racism’.
Harvard’s president can’t be responsible for any ‘perceived’ lack of decency. She checked off several important boxes.
Come-on, man!
Plagiarism: “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.”
[source: Dictionary; Definitions from Oxford Languages]
Gay, etal, were simply exercising their constitutional rights to a certain form of reparations. Get with the program.