We recently reported that billionaire Bill Ackman, a Harvard alumnus who was a major contributing factor in Claudine Gay’s resignation, declared plagiarism war on MIT after his wife’s thesis was attacked.
In his recent column in the New York Post, Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds notes that leftists are now panicked as they are finally experiencing accountability due to the action of outside forces.
A world in which Ivy League presidents have to care what people outside their institutions think is a new world indeed and not a very welcome one to residents of the Ivy bubble.Ackman is doubling down. With help from artificial-intelligence technology (and his extensive and well-paid research staff), he’s looking for plagiarism among university administrators and faculty, and odds are he’ll find quite a bit.As a defensive move, the left-leaning press is trying to normalize plagiarism and stigmatize concerns about it as a “conservative weapon.”…..[A}s University of Southern California law professor Michael Simkovic notes, outside pressure can influence schools, if anyone cares to exert it: “Universities are deeply financially vulnerable and highly dependent on federal funding and federal policy.”I think we’ll see more activist alumni like Ackman, more journalistic scrutiny and more government pressure for universities to do a better job.And it’s about time.
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