Harvard president Claudine Gay facing new plagiarism accusations

Source: Politico | December 21, 2023 | Eric Bazail-Eimil

The embattled leader of America’s oldest university is accused of using “duplicative language” in her 1997 dissertation.

Harvard University President Claudine Gay is facing new plagiarism accusations as the news media and conservative activists scrutinize the academic record of the leader of America’s oldest university.

An internal review from Harvard Wednesday night announced that while her actions did not rise to the level of serious wrongdoing under the university’s rules, Gay still used “duplicative language without proper attribution” in the writing of her 1997 dissertation, according to the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson. The university told the paper that Gay, who earned her doctorate from Harvard in political science, would submit three additional corrections to her dissertation in response.

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A review by CNN also found that the embattled university administrator had lifted language from other scholars and writers in essays she published as a graduate student pursuing her PhD at Harvard and in other articles published during her time as a professor there.

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