Harvard University has been hit with another black eye after former Harvard University President Claudine Guy resigned earlier this month.
As Gateway Pundit previously reported, Jay declined to condemn the hate speech label “Jewish genocide” in his testimony before Congress last month. Evidence then emerged that she had committed academic misconduct by plagiarizing her doctoral thesis.
Now, the Washington Free Beacon reports that Sherri Ann Charleston, Harvard's chief diversity and inclusion officer, received an anonymous complaint on Monday accusing her of widespread plagiarism. This includes uploading large portions of text without quotes and taking credit for a study conducted by another researcher — her husband.
The complaint lists a total of 40 accusations against Charleston dating back to 2009, a decade before she joined Harvard.
The Free Beacon conducted its own independent study of the complaint and revealed that Charleston quoted or paraphrased nearly a dozen researchers without giving them credit for her 2009 dissertation at the University of Michigan.
The complaint obtained by The Free Beacon also alleges that Washington plagiarized a study written by her husband, LaVar Charleston, in 2012. Mr. Charleston currently serves as the University of Wisconsin-Madison's vice president for diversity and inclusion.
The allegation emerged after Ms. Charleston regurgitated significant portions of her husband's 2012 research in an article they “co-authored” in 2014. The Beacon cites four damning examples.
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Rephrasing an old article and passing it off as a new one is outright fraud, though it's probably not plagiarism, Lee Jossim, a social psychologist at Rutgers University, told the Free Beacon.
You cannot republish an old paper as if it were a new paper. If you do, it's not exactly plagiarism; It's like a scam.
Steve McGuire, a former professor of political theory at Villanova University who reviewed the 2012 and 2014 papers, noted that her actions amounted to plagiarism.
“It appears that Sherri Charleston used someone else’s research without proper attribution,” he said.
However, her 2009 thesis appears to have been an open-and-shut case of plagiarism. In the example below shared by the Free Beacon, Ms. Charleston copied a sentence from Erik Arnesen's 1991 book New Orleans Waterfront Workers: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923. She does not use quotation marks and does not cite Arnesen's work in a footnote.
She uses entire paragraphs from Rebecca Scott, her thesis advisor, with minor changes.
Ms. Charleston also raised words from Luis Perez, a historian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Alejandro de la Fuente, historian at Harvard University; Ada Ferrer, a historian at New York University, and more, Bacon points out. Here's how I copied Perez.
Harvard has lost more than $1 billion in donations since the gay scandal. Will this be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back?
