Harvard President’s Resignation Spotlights Woman She Allegedly Plagiarized From

Award-winning political scientist Carol Swain, whose work was allegedly plagiarized by former Harvard President Claudine Gay, says the university has a long way to go to restore its brand and that Ms. Gay’s resignation isn’t nearly enough. “It would take new leadership that was more traditionally focused on academic standards and excellence,” Ms. Swain, a former tenured professor at both Princeton and Vanderbilt universities, told The Epoch Times. “And it would take Claudine Gay actually leaving, and the institution acknowledging that she had engaged in plagiarism, that she had violated academic standards.” Though she is no longer president, Ms. Gay retains a $900,000 salary and a position on the faculty. Her resignation came on Jan. 2, after three months of controversy, beginning with Hamas’s surprise attack and massacre of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, and subsequent questions about the university’s code of conduct when antisemitism became an issue during campus demonstrations in support of Hamas....