When everyone’s calling for your ouster for antisemitism, but it turns out you also have a plagiarism problem.
she’d already made such a spectacle of herself. to engage in plagiarism— in academia of all places… and while under such scrutiny? for the life of me, I simply cannot fathom what could possibly have been going through this person’s mind when they made such fantastical lapses in judgement.
It’s not like she just went on a plagiarism spree after the recent allegations. The article makes it sound like there have been questions about her academic integrity for quite some time.
I see… I’ve read a little more about this. it seems to me now that she’s being put through rather a lot of scrutiny, perhaps more so even than many past Presidents of Harvard. They’re really putting her through the wringer.
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Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid mounting criticism of her scholarship and leadership on the campus.
“It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president,” Gay wrote in a letter.
The decision came at a tumultuous time at Harvard as well as universities across the country, as the Israel-Gaza war intensifies divisions, protests, complaints of bigotry and concerns about safety on campus.
Gay faced complaints about how she initially handled those tensions, and her remarks during a December congressional hearing about antisemitism on college campuses aroused intense criticism.
In October, in response to questions from the New York Post about her scholarship, university officials said Gay asked the Harvard Corporation to conduct an independent review.
The board announced that Gay would request corrections to some work to include missing citations or quotations, but it said that she did not conduct research misconduct.
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