SCOOP: Harvard today received a complaint outlining over 40 allegations of plagiarism against its embattled president, Claudine Gay. The document (available online) suggests a pattern of misconduct more extensive than has been previously reported. 🧵freebeacon.com/campus/fresh-a…
The complaint, which was submitted to Harvard's research integrity officer, includes the examples reported by the Beacon and other outlets, as well as dozens of additional cases in which Gay quoted or paraphrased without proper attribution. Read it here: freebeacon.com/wp-content/upl…
The allegations range from missing quotation marks around a few phrases or sentences to entire paragraphs lifted verbatim. The full list of examples spans seven of Gay's publications—two more than previously reported—which comprise almost half of her scholarly output.
Though the Harvard Corporation said earlier this month that it initiated an independent review Gay's work in October and found "no violation of Harvard's standards for research misconduct," that probe focused on just three papers.
"[I]t is impossible that your office has already reviewed the entirety of these materials," the complaint reads, "as many … have not been previously reported or submitted."
All allegations of faculty plagiarism must be reviewed by Harvard's research integrity officer, according to the school's official policies, and if deemed credible are referred for further investigation.