Harvard president resigns
A few posts ago, I wrote about the Harvard president. There was clear evidence of plagiarism in 50% of her scholarly work. Discussed here. She has now resigned
Plagiarism by the Harvard President
It doesn’t matter who found the plagiarism or why, but there are now at least a half dozen examples of the Harvard president lifting phrases, words or more without attribution. Since she only has 11 papers, this might be as much as 50% of her work.
Honestly, this is the bare minimum. Perhaps before we choose academic leaders, we could spend a little of bit of time evaluating their scholarship.
I don’t believe a good administrator has to be a top researcher. In fact, the top researchers are usually bad leaders. But I do believe that you have to have a basic understanding of scholarship to be an academic leader. You have to understand what plagiarism is.
It is truly amazing how high Claudine Gay rose while failing to meet this basic standard.
Let us not forget somebody (or some body) hired her based on some criteria and vetting. This resignation fixes little but optics.
Enough people realized that she might destroy the entire industry, not just Harvard, and she probably woke up with a metaphorical horse's head in her bed.