Claudine Gay Resigns

MWolf
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:44:56 +0000

There is a running thread about President Gay. No need for a seperate thread about her resignation.

Plagiarism Standards at Harvard: The Claudine Gay Story Harvard University

Here’s a hypothetical scenario. Suppose you knew an unethical Harvard college sophomore who has finished about a dozen classes so far. One of the instructors accuses this student of plagiarism and has the documents to prove it. They then go in front of an academic review board who then finds many more cases of possible plagiarism. What would the decision of the board be? Would it be a zero for that one assignment? Failure of that one course? Failure of all those courses? Suspension? Expulsion? Or would it be “full support” and a commendation from the academic review board? With that last comment, I am of course referring to Claudine Gay’s plagiarism charges. The leniency she was given was unthinkable for a student in that position. So what should Harvard do now? Should it revise its plagiarism standards to the Claudine Gay level, where the following type of copying not just allowed, but apparently “unanimously and unequivocally” supported (images from Harvard Crimson articles on Cla…