Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Exit Sees His Wife Accused of Plagiarism

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why was an investor pushing for anything regarding academia? Who listened and why did they act on it? So much of this doesn’t make sense.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s a right-wing ideologue who saw a chance to break what he saw as left-leaning parts of academia.

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    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s a right-wing ideologue who saw a chance to break

      Sounds about right

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  • CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because he thinks his money buys influence and he was pissy when it didn’t initially. He’s also a racist who went after a Black woman because he could.

    For the record, Business Insider isn’t reporting on his wife because she’s his wife. They’re reporting on his wife because she’s at least as much a plagiarist as Dr Gay.

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    • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even so, her alleged plagiarism seems like a weak case; playing devils advocate and assuming an internal review had no teeth and a soft touch…

      The three corrections to Dr Gay’s 1997 PhD dissertation were announced as part of a review into her work conducted by the Harvard Corporation, the university’s most senior governing body. The review found three instances of “inadequate citation” in her dissertation.

      They had to go back to 1997. Not in publications or continuing work since, not a consistent effort to cheat in numerous cases - three passages in a lengthy PhD dissertation. Worthy of attention and explanation, absolutely. But Harvard didn’t feel it merited demotion, condemnation or resignation, even when they were under Congressional scrutiny.

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  • Nahodyashka@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because universities are businesses with shareholders?

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    • Spaceinv8er@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. They aren’t… Not at all.

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    • Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They don’t. Not typically, anyway. A private university may have a list of donors and a Board of Trustees, but the two aren’t related.

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