Harvard’s review also confirmed that it knew as early as Oct. 24 that The Post “was pursuing a story on allegations of plagiarism against President Gay.”
NEW YORK POST
Harvard University said it has found additional instances of insufficient citations by school president Claudine Gay — as a congressional committee announced it will investigate mounting allegations of plagiarism against her.
The Ivy League school said Wednesday that a recent review uncovered more “examples of duplicative language without appropriate attribution” in Gray’s 1997 doctoral dissertation, according to the Boston Globe, which obtained a summary of the report.
“President Gay will update her dissertation correcting these instances of inadequate citation,” the summary stated, with the Harvard Crimson saying it involved three other corrections to those already made to her work.
The review also confirmed that Harvard knew as early as Oct. 24 that The Post “was pursuing a story on allegations of plagiarism against President Gay.”
However, an independent three-person panel failed to find the plagiarized material because it focused on “all of President Gay’s other published works,” not her dissertation, according to the student paper report.
It was only “in response to new allegations” that the subcommittee “undertook a review of the dissertation,” the university review reportedly said.
The focus on her work emerged as there were growing calls for Gay to be fired over her damning congressional testimony about the failure to tackle rising antisemitism on campus.
Before the latest errors, the Harvard Corporation — the school’s highest governing body — already confirmed an independent review uncovered three cases of “inadequate citation,” but no misconduct.
Still, the school maintained that it did not amount to a “violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct” while stating its firm support for the leader.
The latest confirmation of errors comes as a new report outlines more than 40 allegations of her plagiarizing others’ works.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, which is investigating Harvard, also on Wednesday announced an inquiry into how the school handled the allegations of plagiarism.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to the Harvard Corporation demanding the school to turn over “[a]ll documents and communications concerning the initial allegations of plagiarism” and its investigation of them, according to the Globe.
The congressional committee was already investigating antisemitism on the college campus.
Gay previously defended her academic work when the allegations started mounting.
