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.
A copy of the complaint is at the bottom of the post. I will update the piece as I read through it. Thank you, Washington Free Beacon, for linking to it.
The Washington Free Beacon reported:
The full list of examples spans seven of Gay’s publications—two more than previously reported—which comprise almost half of her scholarly output. Though the Harvard Corporation said earlier this month that it initiated an independent review Gay’s work in October and found “no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct,” that probe focused on just three papers.”[I]t is impossible that your office has already reviewed the entirety of these materials,” the complaint reads, “as many … have not been previously reported or submitted.”All allegations of faculty plagiarism must be reviewed by Harvard’s research integrity officer, according to the school’s official policies, and if deemed credible are referred for further investigation. A guilty finding can result in a range of consequences—including “suspension,” “rank reduction,” and “termination of employment.”In determining the appropriate sanction, the school claims to consider whether the misconduct “was an isolated event or part of a pattern.”
On December 11, School choice advocate Christopher Rufo, American Conservative contributing editor Chris Brunet, and Washington Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium revealed possible plagiarism in Gay’s dissertation “Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies” and two articles, “Moving To Opportunity: the Political Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment” and “A Room for One’s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing.”
The report includes these articles:
The complaint included an allegation that Gay plagiarized her acknowledgments in her dissertation.
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