Get Harvard President Claudine Gay rewrite … again.
The embattled campus boss will need to make three corrections to her Ph.D. dissertation amid plagiarism allegations, according to multiple reports.
The college newspaper, the Crimson, states the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — is behind the corrections. Harvard did not respond to a Herald request for the same statement.
The Crimson added that the Corporation revealed, in part: “The members … concluded that Gay’s inadequate citations, while regrettable, did not constitute research misconduct.”
The Corporation has stood by Gay
The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website, reports Gay is facing more plagiarism woes — where up to 40 accusations of lifting others’ work are being made. “The document paints a picture of a pattern of misconduct more extensive than has been previously reported,” the website posted.
As the Herald has reported that Harvard’s Corporation has already admitted the college is scrubbing Gay’s scholarship.
The governing board has stated: “With regard to President Gay’s academic writings, the University became aware in late October of allegations regarding three articles. At President Gay’s request, the Fellows promptly initiated an independent review by distinguished political scientists and conducted a review of her published work.
“On December 9,” they add, “the Fellows reviewed the results, which revealed a few instances of inadequate citation. While the analysis found no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct, President Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications.”
The board’s decision to repeatedly back Gay comes after her explosive Congressional testimony about antisemitism.
During a controversial Congressional hearing in front of a Republican-led House committee early this month, Gay refused to characterize calls for the genocide of Jews as a breach of Harvard’s code of conduct. There has been a reported spike in antisemitism following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel. Jewish and Israeli students have been threatened and assaulted on campuses.
Harvard alums have been calling on Gay to resign, including Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who several times during the hearing asked Gay whether student protesters calling for the genocide of Jews is allowed on campus.
“This is a moral failure of Harvard’s leadership and higher education leadership at the highest levels,” Stefanik said after the Corporation soon came out with its support of Gay.
It is clear the ink is not dry on this story yet.
