Harvard University has been rocked in the news cycle after its president Claudine Gay\u2019s congressional testimony on antisemitism last week sparked national outrage.<\/p>\n
Now, a look at her academic work has scholars saying Gay \u2018definitely\u2019 plagiarized almost 20 authors in four of her 11 peer-reviewed academic papers, including her doctoral dissertation.<\/p>\n
The Manhattan Institute\u2019s Christopher Rufo and Karlstack\u2019s Chris Brunet published the initial report alleging plagiarism by Gay on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Rufo and Brunet lay out several instances of alleged plagiarism by Gay, including taking a full paragraph from Franklin Gilliam\u2019s and Lawrence Bobo\u2019s paper \u2018Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment,\u2019 which Gay used nearly verbatim in her 1997 Harvard political science doctoral dissertation, \u2018Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Policies.\u2019<\/p>\n
The pair noted that while Gay referenced both Bobo and Gilliam in the paper, she did not use quotation marks for the language she pulled and only changed a few words.<\/p>\n
The Washington Free Beacon analyzed 29 potential instances of plagiarism in Gay\u2019s work that appeared to be lifted from almost a dozen scholars.<\/p>\n
In at least 10 instances, Gay used complete sentences and paragraphs from sources with minor changes to only a few words, the report states.<\/p>\n
The majority of the scholars told the Free Beacon that Gay not only went against her university\u2019s policy on plagiarism but also a basic principle of academic integrity.<\/p>\n
Former Boston University associate provost Peter Wood told the Free Beacon that if \u2018this were a stand-alone instance, it would be reprehensible but perhaps excused as the blunder of someone working hastily.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018But that excuse vanishes as the examples multiply,\u2019 Wood, the director of the National Association of Scholars, continued.<\/p>\n
\u2018This is definitely plagiarism,\u2019 Rutgers University social psychologist Lee Jussim said. \u2018The longer passages are the most egregious,\u2019<\/p>\n
Gay appeared to lift a full paragraph in her 1997 thesis from then-Harvard political science professor Bradley Palmquist and her Ph.D. classmate Stephen Voss, with minor alterations to the text.<\/p>\n
One of the few changes that Gay made was changing the word \u2018decrease\u2019 to \u2018increase\u2019 when analyzing different data, according to the report, and Gay also took two paragraphs from Palmquist and Voss unchanged without quotations or citations.<\/p>\n
Gay took barely modified passages and historical details from scholars David Covin and George Reid Andrews for her 1993 essay, \u2018Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations,\u2019 without citing Covin, the report states.<\/p>\n
In another piece, Gay appeared to take words from a 2003 Department of Housing and Urban Development report written by eight researchers, including three Harvard economists, for her 2012 piece, \u2018Moving To Opportunity: The Political Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment.\u2019<\/p>\n
The Free Beacon report also alleges that Gay used passages from Alex Schwartz\u2019s 2010 book, \u2018Housing Policy in the United States,\u2019 and from the 2011 paper \u2018Low-Income Housing Development and Urban Crime\u2019 by Matthew Freedman and Emily Owens for another piece titled \u2018A Room for One\u2019s Own? The Partisan Allocation of Affordable Housing.\u2019<\/p>\n
Schwartz and the eight researchers were cited in the piece, the report states, but not where their work was allegedly taken. Gay cited neither Freedman nor Owens, but the Harvard president thanked the pair for using their data.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital reached out to Harvard University and Gay for comment.<\/p>\n
Harvard released a statement Tuesday regarding the decision to keep Gay as president, which referred to the allegations of plagiarism as \u2018a few instances of inadequate citation.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018With regard to President Gay\u2019s academic writings, the University became aware in late October of allegations regarding three articles. At President Gay\u2019s request, the Fellows promptly initiated an independent review by distinguished political scientists and conducted a review of her published work,\u2019 Harvard wrote.<\/p>\n
\u2018On December 9, the Fellows reviewed the results, which revealed a few instances of inadequate citation. While the analysis found no violation of Harvard\u2019s 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.\u2019<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital asked the university when the corrected pieces would be published, but did not receive a response.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gay, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth each faced intense backlash after they appeared before Congress last week and were grilled about their handling of antisemitism on their respective campuses following the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel in October.<\/p>\n
Gay responded to House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik\u2019s question during the antisemitism hearing on whether calls for Jewish genocide on campus violated Harvard\u2019s code of conduct.<\/p>\n
\u2018It can be, depending on the context,\u2019 Gay responded.<\/p>\n
Gay will keep her job after telling Congress that calls for Jewish genocide may not violate the Harvard code of conduct, but Magill has resigned her post at Penn.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the Harvard Corporation, announced that Gay would stay in her position, the Harvard Crimson reported.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital\u2019s Chris Pandolfo contributed reporting.<\/p>\n\n
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