Harvard President Plagiarized Her Dissertation

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The Harvard President plagiarized her dissertation.

She must be fired.

This is embarrassing for Harvard’s academic credibility. https://t.co/odstXKs6Ac

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 11, 2023

Please see my letter today to @Harvard governing boards of directors:

December 10, 2023

Dear Members of the Harvard Governing Boards:

In her short tenure as President, Claudine Gay has done more damage to the reputation of Harvard University than any individual in our nearly…

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 10, 2023

First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language.

This is a direct violation of Harvard's policy: "When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas… pic.twitter.com/t6enHp3dN9

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

Gay repeats this violation of Harvard's policy throughout the document, again using work from Bobo and Gilliam, as well as passages from Richard Shingles, Susan Howell, and Deborah Fagan, which she reproduces nearly verbatim, without quotation marks. pic.twitter.com/K75YPeZwky

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

Second, Gay appears to lift material from scholar Carol Swain. In one passage, summarizing the distinction between "descriptive representation" and "substantive representation," she copies the phrasing and language nearly verbatim from Swain’s book 'Black Faces, Black Interests,'… pic.twitter.com/68bJy1F9jo

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

Later in the paper, Gay also uses identical language to Swain, without adding quotation marks, as required. "Since the 1950s the reelection rate for House members has rarely dipped below 90 percent," reads Swain’s book, which is the same, excepting an added comma, to the language… pic.twitter.com/p6aM8776Hh

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

Third, Gay composes an entire appendix in the dissertation directly taken from Gary King's book, 'A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem.' While she cites King’s book later in the appendix—in fact, King was her dissertation advisor—Gay does not explicitly acknowledge that… pic.twitter.com/WGZAzc6gUn

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

These are flagrant violations of Harvard's plagiarism policy, which states that students who commit plagiarism will suffer "disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College." The same standard should apply to the university president. pic.twitter.com/Q2UviANylT

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

I earned a master's degree from Harvard's night school—not nearly as prestigious as the graduate school—but, if I had committed these kinds of violations, I would have been expelled. As an alumnus, I am calling on Claudine Gay to immediately resign from her position.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

I have sent repeated emails to President Gay's office and she has not responded. If she does, I will update the story with her comments.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 11, 2023

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