A prominent professor has called for Harvard University president Claudine Gay to be fired immediately to order the school “back to sanity” after she was accused of plagiarizing the work of other academics 40 times.
Political science professor Dr. Carol Swain, formerly of Vanderbilt University, claims Gay used parts of a book she published in 1993 and an article published in 1997 without crediting her.
“Fire Claudine Gay posthaste,” Swain posted Thursday on X, as part of a post titled “Some free, unsolicited advice for Harvard University.”
“He can be released from duty until the terms are negotiated.
“Hire the best man or woman who can steer the university back to sanity.”
He also told Ivy League colleges that they need to stop “appeasing the Marxist identity politics mob,” saying it “shouldn’t be a consideration,” in their decision-making process.
Harvard University did not respond to a request for comment from The Post Thursday.
Swain also urged the prestigious Ivy League school to “apologize to the alumni, students, parents, and donors who have been hurt and embarrassed.”
I have some free, unsolicited advice for Harvard University.
1. Stop listening to apologists for plagiarism. 2. Api Claudine Gay let go. He can be relieved of duty until terms are negotiated. 3. Stop listening to the racist mobs of whites and blacks crying racism… pic.twitter.com/TggW9QzTkB
—Dr. Carol M. Swain (@carolmswain) December 21, 2023
“Have a sit-down conversation with people who have been harmed by Gay’s plagiarism and the systems that protect it,” Swain continued.
He added he was “weighing [her] choice” in response to a follower’s question about whether he plans to take legal action against Gay.
Allegations of plagiarism against Gay began to emerge earlier this month, with accusations that he retracted the work of another scholar in his 1997 doctoral thesis and that four papers published between 1993 and 2017 did not include proper attribution.
Gay remains president of the college and an investigation by the university clears him of research misconduct.
Claudine Gay had the unanimous support of the university’s board of directors, its governing body said in a statement. David McGlynn
Although he will update the attribution in three examples of his work, the university said it stood by him on Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
An earlier statement on Dec. 12 from the Harvard Corporation, the school’s highest governing body, said officials became aware of the plagiarism allegations in late October and had begun an independent review. That found no wrongdoing, and the review deemed further plagiarism claims submitted earlier this week “without merit,” according to the WSJ.
After that statement, The Post revealed how Harvard actually shut down a weeks-long investigation into whether Gay had used other researchers’ work without crediting it and hired a bulldog law firm to help shut it down.
In a statement to the Boston Globe, Gay staunchly defended his academic rigor, saying: “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.”
Swain previously criticized Gay in an essay for the same newspaper, in which he wrote: “Ms. Gay has no problem going after people whose work he uses without proper attribution. Many of those whose work he stole were not as angry as I was. They are elites who have benefited from a system that protects its own system.”
Dr. Carol Swain, a former professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, has accused Gay of plagiarizing her work. X / @carolmswain Portable signs have been placed around campus recently urging schools to fire Gays. This one describes it as a “national disgrace.” David McGlynn
Allegations of plagiarism have drawn the attention of Congress, with the House Committee on Education and the Workforce expanding an existing investigation into antisemitism on college campuses to include allegations of plagiarism, according to the Harvard Crimson.
Gay has already come under fire for his handling of antisemitic behavior on campus in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack and his response to separate congressional hearings about them in which he refused to condemn a Harvard student who called for the genocide of Jews.
In the ensuing firestorm, a bipartisan group of members of Congress introduced a resolution calling for Gay’s resignation, but the college also supported him at the time.
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