Plagiarism probe finds some problems with former Harvard president Claudine Gay's work

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BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has shed fresh light on the ongoing
investigation into plagiarism accusations against former president
Claudine Gay, including that an independent body recommended a
broader review after substantiating some of the complaints.

In a letter Friday to a congressional committee, Harvard said it
learned of the plagiarism allegations against its first Black female
president on Oct. 24 from a New York Post reporter. The school
reached out to several authors whom Gay is accused of plagiarizing
and none objected to her language, it said.

Harvard then appointed the independent body, which focused on two of
Gay's articles published in 2012 and 2017. It concluded they “are
both sophisticated and original,” and found “virtually no evidence
of intentional claiming of findings” that were not her own.

The panel, however, concluded that nine of 25 allegations found by
the Post were “of principal concern" and featured “paraphrased or
reproduced the language of others without quotation marks and
without sufficient and clear crediting of sources.” It also found
one instance where “fragments of duplicative language and
paraphrasing" by Gay could be interpreted as her taking credit for
another academic's work, though there isn't any evidence that was
her aim.

It also found that a third paper, written by Gay during her first
year in graduate school, contained “identical language to that
previously published by others."

Those findings prompted a broader review of her work by a Harvard
subcommittee, which eventually led Gay to make corrections to the
2012 article as well as a 2001 article that surfaced in the broader
review. The subcommittee presented its findings Dec. 9 to the
Harvard Corporation, Harvard’s governing board, concluding that
Gay's “conduct was not reckless nor intentional and, therefore, did
not constitute research misconduct."

Gay’s academic career first came under the scrutiny following her
congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus. Gay, Liz
Magill of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT’s president, Sally
Kornbluth, came under criticism for their lawyerly answers to New
York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who asked whether “calling for the
genocide of Jews” would violate the colleges’ codes of conduct.

The three presidents had been called before the Republican-led House
Committee on Education and the Workforce to answer accusations that
universities were failing to protect Jewish students amid rising
fears of antisemitism worldwide and the fallout from Israel’s
intensifying war in Gaza.

Gay said it depended on the context, adding that when “speech
crosses into conduct, that violates our policies.” The answer faced
swift backlash from Republican and some Democratic lawmakers, as
well as the White House.

The House committee announced days later that it would investigate
the policies and disciplinary procedures at Harvard, MIT and Penn.

The corporation initially rallied behind Gay, saying a review of her
scholarly work turned up “a few instances of inadequate citation”
but no evidence of research misconduct. The allegations of
plagiarism continued to surface through December and Gay resigned
this month.

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