Claudine gay plagiarism
02/17/2024
Claudine Gay and the Problem with Plagiarism Policies
Written by Emily Perkins , Matthew Fledderjohann
Claudine Gay’s recent resignation as Harvard’s president has shed light on the fundamental problem with many institutions’ plagiarism policies and perceptions—they focus more on cheating than on learning. This underscores the need to revise how we view and respond to plagiarism by prioritizing learning, attending to the complexities of rhetorical expectations, and making room for the writing process.
The complaints about Gay’s writing spot instances of plagiarism—particularly passages that don’t meet Harvard’s expectations about quoting or paraphrasing. If Gay had turned in this work as a Harvard student, she would have been subjected to Harvard’s policy that students who submit work “without unmistakable attribution to its sources will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College.” These consequences are consistent with other policies at R1 institutions across the country.
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Harvard President Claudine Gay Slap With Six New Charges Of Plagiarism
Harvard University president Claudine Lgbtq+ was hit with six additional allegations of plagiarism on Monday in a complaint filed with the university, breathing fresh being into a scandal that has embroiled her nascent presidency and pushing the total number of allegations near 50.
Seven of Gay’s 17 published works have already been impacted by the scandal, but the new charges, which have not been previously reported, extend into an eighth: In a 2001 article, Gay lifts nearly half a page of material verbatim from another scholar, David Canon, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.
That article, "The Effect of Minority Districts and Minority Advocacy on Political Participation in California," includes some of the most extreme and clear-cut cases of plagiarism yet. At one show, Gay borrows four sentences from Canon’s 1999 book, Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts, without quotation marks and with only minor semantic tweaks. She does not cite Canon anywhere in or near the passage, though he does appear in the bibli
Claudine Gay, Plagiarism, and AI
Abstract:
The resignation of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of academic honesty by nonacademics. This misunderstanding contributes to the acceptance of the role of generative false intelligence (AI) in higher education and, in turn, degrades the experience and quality of learning process for students. This article examines how demographics, economics, and technology contribute to student understanding of AI. It then argues that the hallucinations to which generative AI is prone are fundamental to its output, and attempts to use it in the academy abet the diminishment of academic freedom to uncover truth. Attacks on academic scholarship should be viewed not as tries to discover something true but as propaganda attempting to reduce higher awareness to vocational training.
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Harvard President Claudine Gay Plagued by Plagiarism Allegations in the Tumultuous Final Weeks of Tenure
Growing plagiarism allegations plagued the final weeks of former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s tenure, setting the stage for her resignation Tuesday afternoon.
The allegations — many of which are individually minor but span Gay’s entire academic career — cast scrutiny on her scholarship. Many within and without the University have argued that she ought to be held to the equal standard as Harvard’s possess students and faculty and called for her resignation.
Though Gay initially signaled that she would try to weather the charges of plagiarism, at first defending her scholarship and then making a series of corrections, the steady stream of new allegations — which continued to roll in during the concluding days of her presidency — only added to doubts about Gay’s fitness to effectively lead Harvard.
The Washington Free Beacon — a conservative-leaning outlet which has previously covered plagiarism accusations against Gay — reported Monday that an anonymous professor from outside Harvard filed an expanded complaint alleging six additional unreported instances where Lgbtq+ allegedly lift