Harvard president plagiarized her PhD thesis

This isn’t a bombshell. She gives attribution to original sources in every passage. I would guess if you took a microscope to just about any dissertation, you would find a handful of paraphrased sections that are probably close enough to the original to warrant direct quotation marks. While this may be a minor violation of a style book, this is not Claudine Gay passing off another’s intellectual work as her own. Frankly, I’m impressed this is the biggest “bombshell” that could be found.

Also, why on earth is black electoral politics an “insane” thesis topic?

New name /. Your comment is just silly. Of course they are both very bright,

capable people. Summers was the youngest person ever to receive tenure at

Harvard.

From an email sent to Harvard alumni on 12/12/23

Dear Members of the Harvard Community,
As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay’s continued leadership of Harvard University. Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.
So many people have suffered tremendous damage and pain because of Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack, and the University’s initial statement should have been an immediate, direct, and unequivocal condemnation. Calls for genocide are despicable and contrary to fundamental human values. President Gay has apologized for how she handled her congressional testimony and has committed to redoubling the University’s fight against antisemitism.
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, 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.
In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay. At Harvard, we champion open discourse and academic freedom, and we are united in our strong belief that calls for violence against our students and disruptions of the classroom experience will not be tolerated. Harvard’s mission is advancing knowledge, research, and discovery that will help address deep societal issues and promote constructive discourse, and we are confident that President Gay will lead Harvard forward toward accomplishing this vital work.
The Fellows of Harvard College
Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow
Timothy R. Barakett, Treasurer
Kenneth I. Chenault
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Paul J. Finnegan
Biddy Martin
Karen Gordon Mills
Diana L. Nelson
Tracy P. Palandjian
Shirley M. Tilghman
Theodore V. Wells, Jr.

Zero shock that the far left protected the far left.

Equity > Academic integrity

Harvard rots further.

You’ve made no argument that academic integrity was compromised.

Show us proof! Show us proof!

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I suspect that Harvard also admitted Jazz Jennings as an undergraduate because of, you know, inclusivity and diversity. Poor Jazz is a slow-motion video of a high-speed train wreck.

spiked-online.com

The tragedy of Jazz Jennings

Malcolm Clark

The reality-TV star's story is a terrible indictment of so-called gender-affirming care.

Open link

And David Hogg

He wasn't even there when the shooting happened. And then he was paid millions from Democrat PACs to constantly shill for gun control.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/us/politics/elise-stefanik-replacement-theory.html

As before. How many homicides occur in Chicago weekly?

Misapplied the style guide?! Oh dear.

the heinous Harvard press is untouchable, black, 'female' and Gay

Harvard Pres, not press

Agree with all this. It sounds like the most problematic part was a paragraph describing results that was nearly identical to someone else's paragraph describing the same data. That's not a great look and should not have happened, but it doesn't rise to the level of blatant plagiarism.

Well, the UC schools are tasked, by state law, with applying only objective standards. And that can make it hard to admit exceptional applicants. Rivers Cuomo--bandleader of Weezer--was also admitted and attended some time around the late 90s. I don't really have a problem with that. To a degree, it depends on what you even think the purpose of admissions criteria are.

There is software that does this these days. A thesis is required to be processed (as well as all written papers) by the student using the software BEFORE it is deemed acceptable to pass on to thesis advisor for a first pass review. The software is improved every year and it is what would now be called AI Software.

You can write what you think is your own unique sentence and have AI software might tell you that your "unique" sentence is too similar to something written before. You must either rewrite "your" sentence, or provide an attribution.

The clowns whining about plagiarism have never had anything they have written processed by such software. They have absolutely no concept of what a thesis goes through before it is accepted. A thesis is not written in the dark and self-approved. It is heavily reviewed by faculty and software before it is accepted.

Black electoral politics: having your cities be so crime ridden that nobody wants to move there, so black political power remains