A US House of Representatives committee has opened an inquiry into Harvard University’s handling of allegations of plagiarism against President Claudine Gay, who sat before the panel this month to address antisemitism on campus.
Republican Virginia Foxx, chair of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a four-page letter Wednesday to Penny Pritzker, head of the school’s governing board, asking for a response by Dec. 29 to questions including whether Harvard holds faculty and students to the same standards.
The inquiry comes after Harvard’s board last week agreed to keep Gay as president and found that in her published articles she didn’t violate the university’s standards of conduct for research. “Our concern is that standards are not being applied consistently, resulting in different rules for different members of the academic community,” wrote Foxx of North Carolina. “If a university is willing to look the other way and not hold faculty accountable for engaging in academically dishonest behavior, it cheapens its mission and the value of its education.”
The inquiry expands the committee’s probe of Harvard beyond antisemitism and harassment at a time when the school and Gay have come under intense criticism from alumni, donors and students. The US Education Department has also opened an investigation into Harvard and other schools over complaints of incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza.
Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, was one of three university leaders who testified before the House panel on Dec. 5. The trio were excoriated for their failure to clearly condemn calls for genocide of Jews as a violation of school policy. The testimony was punctuated by an exchange with Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican and Harvard alumna.
While the University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill resigned, Gay, who took office July 1, and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology retained their jobs and have been supported by their boards. A week after her testimony, the Harvard Corporation, the university’s governing board, called Gay “the right leader.”
The Harvard board said it had become aware in October of allegations of plagiarism regarding three articles written by Gay. After a review of her published work, it found “a few instances of inadequate citation” but no violation of Harvard’s standards on research misconduct.
Harvard has been trying to quell a revolt by alumni and wealthy donors including investor Bill Ackman, who have slammed her handling of rising antisemitism on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war. The criticism increasingly fed into a broader ideological battle over alleged left-wing bias at elite universities, with Republicans and some donors seeing the debate as an opportunity to reshape US higher education. Hamas is considered a terrorist group by the US and European Union.
While Harvard is a private university, it receives money from the US government. Federally sponsored research comprised 11% of its operating revenue in fiscal 2023. Donors also receive federal tax deductions. Harvard’s $51 billion endowment has been taxed since Republicans changed the tax code in 2017.
Well done, Chris. It's imperative that Harvard be forced to choose in PUBLIC what their seminal values will be going forward -- pursuit of truth via rigorous scientific standards and freedom of speech and inquiry, or Intersectionality, which, as we've seen, now condones plagiarism from its leader when necessary. Keep up the good work.
Read your thread on X and great investigating beyond just the plagiarism, what she did to others, especially the young genius economist, she is evil! Thank you!
I don't care for Claudine Gay but I don't see how a private institution's low standards are Congress' business. I don't think the Government should be bringing down the hammer on private institutions' dirty laundry just because the representative of that institution said things Congress finds objectionable, even though I also found what she said objectionable.
"While Harvard is a private university, it receives money from the US government. Federally sponsored research comprised 11% of its operating revenue in fiscal 2023."
Actually, it is a private university, like Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, but not Cornell. However, it takes so much government money that it can be effectively controlled by the U.S. Government.
Hillsdale College in Michigan is one of the ~22 colleges in the U.S. that don't take any federal funding.
This is why Claudine Gay, notorious plagiarist and defender of free speech for those who hate Jews, must be booted out of academia once and for all:
From yesterday's Atlantic: "Israeli families were burned alive while hiding in their homes. People were decapitated. The bodies of babies were riddled with bullets. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking at a Senate hearing, told of a boy, 6, and a girl, 8, and their parents around the breakfast table. The father’s eye was gouged out in front of his kids. The mother’s breast was cut off, the girl’s foot amputated, and the boy’s fingers cut off before they were executed. “And then their executioners sat down and had a meal,” Blinken said. “That is what this society is dealing with.”
“Republican Virginia Foxx, chair of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a four-page letter Wednesday to Penny Pritzker, head of the school’s governing board...”
Understanding whom is Harvard’s head of it’s governing board, a person formerly known as the billionaire James Priztker, might explain why that school is dug in so hard on defending its very diverse president:
James Pritzker, a biological male who now pretends to be a "transgender" woman named "Jennifer," is Penny Pritzker's cousin. Another Pritzker cousin is JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois who has talked about running for the US presidency this time around.
The entire Pritzker clan is toxic. Their $30 billon fortune originally came from the Hyatt Hotels chain and they pump a huge chunk of that money into a secretive web of foundations that promote all sorts of noxious left wing causes,most especially "transgenderism."
This is correct on principle. It is also correct politically, as this sort of stunt comes across as it's the Republicans who are trying to drive her out of office.
Gonna tell my grandkids that a random Canadian dude wrecked Harvard. Name and shame the Harvard corporation next.
Can’t wait.
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A US House of Representatives committee has opened an inquiry into Harvard University’s handling of allegations of plagiarism against President Claudine Gay, who sat before the panel this month to address antisemitism on campus.
Republican Virginia Foxx, chair of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a four-page letter Wednesday to Penny Pritzker, head of the school’s governing board, asking for a response by Dec. 29 to questions including whether Harvard holds faculty and students to the same standards.
The inquiry comes after Harvard’s board last week agreed to keep Gay as president and found that in her published articles she didn’t violate the university’s standards of conduct for research. “Our concern is that standards are not being applied consistently, resulting in different rules for different members of the academic community,” wrote Foxx of North Carolina. “If a university is willing to look the other way and not hold faculty accountable for engaging in academically dishonest behavior, it cheapens its mission and the value of its education.”
The inquiry expands the committee’s probe of Harvard beyond antisemitism and harassment at a time when the school and Gay have come under intense criticism from alumni, donors and students. The US Education Department has also opened an investigation into Harvard and other schools over complaints of incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza.
Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, was one of three university leaders who testified before the House panel on Dec. 5. The trio were excoriated for their failure to clearly condemn calls for genocide of Jews as a violation of school policy. The testimony was punctuated by an exchange with Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican and Harvard alumna.
While the University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill resigned, Gay, who took office July 1, and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology retained their jobs and have been supported by their boards. A week after her testimony, the Harvard Corporation, the university’s governing board, called Gay “the right leader.”
The Harvard board said it had become aware in October of allegations of plagiarism regarding three articles written by Gay. After a review of her published work, it found “a few instances of inadequate citation” but no violation of Harvard’s standards on research misconduct.
Harvard has been trying to quell a revolt by alumni and wealthy donors including investor Bill Ackman, who have slammed her handling of rising antisemitism on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war. The criticism increasingly fed into a broader ideological battle over alleged left-wing bias at elite universities, with Republicans and some donors seeing the debate as an opportunity to reshape US higher education. Hamas is considered a terrorist group by the US and European Union.
While Harvard is a private university, it receives money from the US government. Federally sponsored research comprised 11% of its operating revenue in fiscal 2023. Donors also receive federal tax deductions. Harvard’s $51 billion endowment has been taxed since Republicans changed the tax code in 2017.
Well done, Chris. It's imperative that Harvard be forced to choose in PUBLIC what their seminal values will be going forward -- pursuit of truth via rigorous scientific standards and freedom of speech and inquiry, or Intersectionality, which, as we've seen, now condones plagiarism from its leader when necessary. Keep up the good work.
Read your thread on X and great investigating beyond just the plagiarism, what she did to others, especially the young genius economist, she is evil! Thank you!
That’s called hitting the big time!
Congrats on excellent work, sir!
They could start with Biden, who plagiarized everyone one of his re-election speeches.
I don't care for Claudine Gay but I don't see how a private institution's low standards are Congress' business. I don't think the Government should be bringing down the hammer on private institutions' dirty laundry just because the representative of that institution said things Congress finds objectionable, even though I also found what she said objectionable.
Harvard isn't a private institution. It's a public university, paid for by the taxpayer.
"While Harvard is a private university, it receives money from the US government. Federally sponsored research comprised 11% of its operating revenue in fiscal 2023."
That's why Congress needs to get involved.
Actually, it is a private university, like Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, but not Cornell. However, it takes so much government money that it can be effectively controlled by the U.S. Government.
Hillsdale College in Michigan is one of the ~22 colleges in the U.S. that don't take any federal funding.
no, it isn't
Stick https://archive.md/ (or is or ph or ...) in front of the url and see what happens
In this case you get https://archive.is/7Yrs6
Search the headline it’s published elsewhere without paywall: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/congress-expands-scope-harvard-investigation-include-presidents-allegations-plagiarism
"Wow!"
Double Wow!! Hopefully more to come. Great work!!
Hey, the stupid party wakes up and starts the process of exposing the evil party.
This is why Claudine Gay, notorious plagiarist and defender of free speech for those who hate Jews, must be booted out of academia once and for all:
From yesterday's Atlantic: "Israeli families were burned alive while hiding in their homes. People were decapitated. The bodies of babies were riddled with bullets. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking at a Senate hearing, told of a boy, 6, and a girl, 8, and their parents around the breakfast table. The father’s eye was gouged out in front of his kids. The mother’s breast was cut off, the girl’s foot amputated, and the boy’s fingers cut off before they were executed. “And then their executioners sat down and had a meal,” Blinken said. “That is what this society is dealing with.”
It's time to send her packing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/biden-progressive-moderate-left-israel-hamas-war/676392/
“Republican Virginia Foxx, chair of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a four-page letter Wednesday to Penny Pritzker, head of the school’s governing board...”
Understanding whom is Harvard’s head of it’s governing board, a person formerly known as the billionaire James Priztker, might explain why that school is dug in so hard on defending its very diverse president:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-money-behind-the-transgender-movement/
James Pritzker, a biological male who now pretends to be a "transgender" woman named "Jennifer," is Penny Pritzker's cousin. Another Pritzker cousin is JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois who has talked about running for the US presidency this time around.
The entire Pritzker clan is toxic. Their $30 billon fortune originally came from the Hyatt Hotels chain and they pump a huge chunk of that money into a secretive web of foundations that promote all sorts of noxious left wing causes,most especially "transgenderism."
While the behavior of Harvard and Dr Gay is detestable, I don’t think government interference is warranted
This is correct on principle. It is also correct politically, as this sort of stunt comes across as it's the Republicans who are trying to drive her out of office.