One of the academics who has accused Harvard president Claudine Gay of ripping off her work claims the Ivy League school won’t condemn her because it holds “high-blooded” minorities to a lower standard than others.
Carol Swain, a former professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, blasted the school in a fiery Wall Street Journal op-ed published Monday — nearly a week after Harvard said it stood by Gay following an investigation into plagiarism allegations leveled against him.
“Harvard cannot condemn Ms. Gay because she is a product of an elite system that holds high-born minorities to a lower standard,” Swain said.
“This hurts academia as a whole, and it demeans Americans, of all races, who have to work for everything they earn.”
Gay came under fire with accusations that he retracted scholarly work in his 1997 doctoral thesis and wrote four papers published between 1993 and 2017 that lacked proper attribution.
The Harvard Corporation — the school’s highest governing body — revealed last week that an independent review of the plagiarism allegations had found three instances of “inadequate citation” on Gay’s part, but no misconduct.
Harvard President Claudine Gay was hit with accusations that she failed to properly credit the work of others. Reuters
Swain, for his part, claimed the Harvard prez copied parts of his 1993 book, “Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress,” as well as an article published in 1997 titled, “Women and Blacks in Congress: 1870-1996.”
The former Vanderbilt professor accused Gay of ignoring “the substantive importance of my research” by failing to mention it at a time when Swain’s work was “considered seminal”.
“When scholars are not cited enough or their work is ignored, it hurts them because academic standing is determined by how often other researchers cite your work,” Swain said.
Carol Swain, a former professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, claimed that Harvard would not condemn Claudine Gay because it held “high-blooded” minorities to a lower standard than others. Fox News
“Ms. Gay has no problem going after people whose work she uses without proper attribution. Many of those whose work she steals are not as angry as I am. They are elites who have benefited from a system that protects her own system.”
“Even apart from documented instances of plagiarism, Ms. Gay’s work would not normally have earned her a position in the Ivy League. Tenure at a top-level institution usually demands groundbreaking originality; his work shows nothing,” continued Swain.
“In a world where the privilege of diversity is king, Ms. Gay was able to do mediocre research during her tenure and administrative advancement at what was once considered a world-class university.”
Gay has come under fire for alleged mishandling of antisemitism at Harvard. Adam Guillette / Accuracy in Media
Swain also suggested last week that Gay “gets a free pass” because he is a product of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Gay, however, staunchly defended his academic rigor when the allegations surfaced, telling the Boston Globe: “I stand by the integrity of my scholarship. Throughout my career, I have strived to ensure that my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.”
The revelations about Gay’s alleged plagiarism come after the university leader faced a backlash following his disastrous congressional hearings on antisemitism.
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Gay and several other Ivy League presidents were embroiled in a firestorm after they failed to denounce calls for the genocide of Jews at their respective schools during congressional hearings.
It prompted some lawmakers and Harvard donors to immediately call for Gay’s resignation after his testimony sparked a national backlash.
The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, who attended the hearing with Gay, resigned four days after the incriminating testimony.
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