Harvard DEI Chief Accused of Plagiarism

Harvard University could be facing a fresh plagiarism scandal after an earlier one led to the resignation of the institution’s president. A new complaint against the university’s chief diversity and inclusion officer alleges she lifted significant portions of text in her academic work without quotation marks. Sherri Ann Charleston, a historian, was named Harvard’s chief diversity and inclusion officer in 2020. A complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon alleges that her doctoral dissertation contains “a lot of other scholars’ language verbatim” with no quotation marks, only references in footnotes. “Charleston will lift whole sentences and paragraphs from other scholars’ work without quotation marks, then add a correct reference somewhere in the footnote ending the long paragraph,” the complaint reads....