Harvard President Accused of Plagiarizing Other Scholars in Academic Work

Published on December 12, 2023

Harvard University President Claudine Gay has been accused of plagiarizing content from other scholars. “I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard’s policies on academic integrity. This is a bombshell,” Christopher F. Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute think tank, said in a Dec. 11 X post. He pointed to a 1997 paper by Ms. Gay, which he said “lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim” from a 1990 paper by authors Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam The original 1990 paper has the following statement—“Blacks in high-black-empowerment areas—as indicated by control of the mayor’s office֫—are more active than either blacks living in low-empowerment areas or their white counterparts of comparable socioeconomic status.”...

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