Claudine Gay, plagiarism, and The Hill's rumors about her.

The Hill said they heard rumors that Barack Obama himself had lobbied the Harvard Corporation (the Board that appointed Gay) to not fire her. Penny Pritzker, a Harvard alum, is the Board Chair and also was head of the committee that chose Gay, and Penny, who was in Barack’s cabinet, has also been holding firm on keeping Gay on.

Another rumor is that Gay refused to resign and threatened the Board with a lawsuit if fired.

Certainly, the fact of Gay’s persistent plagiarism is of massive concern. Her inability to govern Harvard effectively and respond effectively to Congress are concerns. The basis on which she was selected—given her thin resume—is also of concern.

The CV she posts is from 2012, even though she links to it from a website created since she became President of Harvard only 6 months ago. The admittedly old CV—but why isn’t there a newer one available?—lists only 8 peer-reviewed publications, is 5 pages long, but indicates a huge amount of networking, fellowships and grants for scholarship.

I just found another CV dated 10/2022, but this one only has eleven journal articles and is only 3 pages long. She has been a professor at Harvard for 25 years, and 11 journal articles is about what my son produced during his PhD studies. Extremely ho-hum.

On the one hand, she is the child of Haitian immigrants. On the other, she attended Phillips Exeter Academy for high school, where the ruling class sends their children, Princeton then Stanford for college and Harvard for her PhD. Not a typical Haitian immigrant.

Here is what the Harvard Crimson said about her:

The Scholar Everyone Sought: Claudine Gay, Harvard’s Next President

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay will make history on July 1, when she will become the first person of color and only the second woman to lead America’s oldest institution of higher education. But despite Gay’s historic appointment, many of her colleagues and friends say they were unsurprised by her selection to Harvard’s top post.

By Miles J. Herszenhorn and Claire Yuan January 27, 2023

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From the moment she finished her Ph.D. in Government at Harvard nearly 25 years ago, Claudine Gay was one of the most sought-after young scholars in the country.

Jennifer L. Hochschild, a Princeton politics professor at the time, recalled trying to recruit Gay to the university — only to have Gay choose Stanford instead, where she attained tenure in just five years.

After coming to Harvard, Hochschild got a second chance to persuade Gay to work with her in 2006, when she served on another search committee seeking to hire Gay.

This time, Hochschild succeeded.

Since then, Gay has had a meteoric rise through Harvard’s administration. Within a decade, she was tapped as dean of Social Sciences. Three years later, she was appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Less than five years after that, on Dec. 15, 2022, Gay was selected as the 30th University president.

Gay, 52, will make history on July 1, when she will become the first person of color and only the second woman to lead America’s oldest institution of higher education. But despite Gay’s historic appointment, many of her colleagues and friends say they were unsurprised by her selection to Harvard’s top post…

Dean Claudine Gay was named Harvard's next University president on Dec. 15, 2022, capping her meteoric rise to academia's top ranks.

Now, what is plagiarism? It is one of only 3 crimes that an academic can be punished for. The other two are fabrication and falsification. Who decides if an academic is guilty of scientific misconduct, including plagiarism? The university, or the federal Office of Research Misconduct. Here is a list of guilty parties over the past few years. Here is the ORM’s policy on plagiarism. It includes:

As a general working definition, ORI considers plagiarism to include both the theft or misappropriation of intellectual property and the substantial unattributed textual copying of another's work. It does not include authorship or credit disputes.

The theft or misappropriation of intellectual property includes the unauthorized use of ideas or unique methods obtained by a privileged communication, such as a grant or manuscript review.

Substantial unattributed textual copying of another's work means the unattributed verbatim or nearly verbatim copying of sentences and paragraphs which materially mislead the ordinary reader regarding the contributions of the author.

Academics who are found guilty can be banned from obtaining future research grants from the federal government. It will be difficult for them to get another job. They may lose their current position, particularly if they cannot do their work without obtaining federal grants.

So—Gay appears to be guilty of plagiarism, though we have not heard from any committee investigating her. And she is revamping her publications as I write, in a late attempt to polish up the record.

It seems she checked every box but one: high quality scholarship. Honesty is not a box you check; in fact, it is probably necessary to be dishonest when you are being groomed for high muckety-muck status for the cabal. Do the rulers of the world have someone waiting in the wings to replace her, to make sure Harvard continues its woke ways and kowtows to the cabal? Surely she cannot last much longer.

January 2, 2024: More plagiarism examples appeared, and Gay finally resigned today. But if they let her continue to teach—a big if—she will probably be smiling all the way to the bank. Cause she was earning over $800,000/year even before she was made President of Harvard.