M.AMINUR RAHMAN
A leadership debacle at Harvard University raises the risk of exposing academia's cardinal sin: fraud as a potential new weapon in the moderate attack on advanced education.
Claudine Gay's resignation on Tuesday comes years after she was accused of quoting various researchers in her doctoral dissertation and diary entries. The allegations came in response to his legislative announcement of discrimination against Jewish neighbors.
The claims of falsification came not from his academic friends, but from his political opponents, driven by moderates who wanted to expose his profession to intense scrutiny in order to ostracize homosexuals and expose its fatal flaws. His doubters accused a gay man who had a Ph.D. In government, where he taught at Harvard and Stanford universities and headed one of Harvard's largest departments before his promotion, he usually won the top job because he was a man of color.
Christopher Ruffo, a moderate dissident who coordinated the effort, hailed his takeoff as a success in his mission to build a world-class institution of higher education. Earlier on Twitter, he referred to gays as "scalped" as if they were the reward of atrocities, invoking the horrific practice of white pilgrims who tried to kill Native Americans.
"Tomorrow, we'll be back in the fight," he told X, making a "strategy" against an organization considered too liberal by traditionalists. His recent mission is to strive to promote diversity, value and consideration in training and business.
"We must not stop until we disable the DEI concept from every American facility," he said. In another post, he announced a new "fake victim reservation" and "revealed the decline of the elite as the most significant rule of academic life, as opposed to the racist belief system. We will reassert its truth."
Gay did not directly address the allegations of fraud in his statement of reasons for leaving the university, but said he was upset that his responsibility to "maintain academic integrity" was called into question. He likewise pointed to the December congressional hearings that set off a flurry of analysis, without explicitly mentioning that calling for the extermination of the Jews meant ignoring Harvard's strategy.
His takeoff came just six months after becoming Harvard's most memorably dark president.
As a non-entity of the university, the president often faces increased scrutiny and various pioneers have been expelled through false accusations. Stanford University leaders capitulated last year when it was discovered that they were controlling logical information about the experiment. The University of South Carolina leader delivered part of his own commencement speech in 2021.
Regarding the homosexual situation, many scholars were confused as to how the forgery came to be known. This is part of a planned mission to destroy Gay and remove him from office and power, due to his contributions to racial justice efforts in the neighborhood. His defection comes after prominent moderates, including former Harvard Rep. Elise Stefanik and Bill Ackman, a super-rich and versatile investment executive who has donated millions of dollars to Harvard. This was done after the necessity of expulsion from the community.
The mandate for gay and other elite-level presidents has become part of a larger conservative effort to reshape higher education, which is often seen as a bastion of radicalism. Conservative naysayers have decried efforts to destroy state funding for universities, eliminate residential programs, and make universities more attractive to diverse graduate schools, graduate schools with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people groups. They similarly expect to limit how race and orientation can be discussed in the homeroom.
Walter M. Kimbrough, former leader of the generally dark Dillard College, remembers a saying from his mother, a dark alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1950s: I picked it up.
As a person of color in academia, he said, "you generally have to be twice or many times as great."
“There will be someone who will mark them as ‘DEI recruits,’ especially given that they suspect minorities are not at the top, just like they tried to name her.” said Kimbrough. "If you have a desire to lead a foundation (like Harvard), there are going to be people who are trying to get rid of you."
An investigation by moderate activists and a subsequent investigation by Harvard's Board of Trustees identified various flaws in the gay academic bibliography. Often originally distributed by the moderate site Washington Free Signal, Gay's works incorporate long-form structures that echo the language of other distributed works. An investigation requested by Harvard University found "duplicate language" and missing citations, but the errors "could not be considered intentional or inadvertent" and did not amount to misconduct. It is said that
Harvard University recently said Gay updated his account and mentioned revisions to his diary.
Among her fault-finders in the moderate and academic community, this finding is clear evidence that gays are unfit to serve as top academics at the pinnacle of American higher education. She doesn't protect anything except the obvious.
Davarian Baldwin, a history expert at Trinity School who explains race and advanced education, said that in deeply focused fields, researchers often use comparative language to depict similar ideas. Ta. He said Gay clearly made a mistake, but with the prevalence of programs aimed at distinguishing counterfeits, it is not difficult to find relative crossover in the work of different presidents and professors. .
He added that the device would become dangerous if it were to be "under the control of those who claim that the entire academic community is a den of inadequacies and troublemakers."
John Pelissero, a former middle school principal who now works for the Markkula Applied Ethics Community, said there are cases where the merits of forgery are evaluated solely, and it's generally not that simple.
"He's looking for whether there was a purpose in his work to deceive or misappropriate other people's ideas," Pelissero said. Or, on the contrary, was there an innocent mistake?
Eileen Mulvey, president of the American Association of University Teachers, did not discuss the merits of the accusations against gays, saying she was concerned that falsified tests could be "weaponized" to pursue political agendas. Stated.
“Right now, there is a traditional political attack on higher education that feels like an existential threat to the academic opportunities that make American higher education the envy of the world,” Mulvey said. Ta.
She emphasizes that gay departures would place an undue burden on principals. Despite the job of pursuing contributors, policy makers, and alumni, the president should protect his staff from interference and allow them to explore without limit.
"It's not good for academic opportunities for a president to be ousted like this," she said. “I think it would chill the academic opportunity environment. Furthermore, university presidents, out of paranoid fear of losing their status or being designated, would be reluctant to respond to this unsightly obstacle. may reduce their tendency to rebel."
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