Conservative activist Christopher Rufo and journalist Christopher Brunet have raised concerns about potential plagiarism in Harvard President Claudine Gay’s Ph.D. dissertation.
They claim that sections of the dissertation violate Harvard’s academic integrity policies by using verbatim language without proper citation.
The dissertation allegedly borrows from various sources without adequate acknowledgment, including using entire paragraphs and sentences without quotation marks or citations. (Trending: Hunter Biden’s Own Memoir Is Coming Back To Haunt Him In Criminal Trial)
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“As evaluated under the university’s plagiarism policy, the paper contains at least three problematic patterns of usage and citation,” Rufo stated.
“She uses their verbatim language, with a few trivial synonym substitutions, without providing quotation marks.”
Gay “does not explicitly acknowledge that Appendix B is entirely grounded in King’s concepts, instead passing it off as her own original work,” Rufo said.
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 takes entire phrases and sentences directly from King’s book, without any citations or quotation marks.”
“In total, Gay borrows material from King in at least half a dozen paragraphs,” he added.
This comes amid existing controversy surrounding Gay’s leadership and her response to antisemitism on campus.
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
The situation has led to mounting pressure and calls for resignation from university presidents.
In this exclusive report, @RealChrisBrunet and I examine Harvard President Claudine Gay's Ph.D. dissertation, which contains repeated instances of plagiarism, as defined by Harvard's academic integrity policies.
The bottom line: She must resign.https://t.co/lwbSA9DGUL
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 11, 2023
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