{"id":139928,"date":"2024-01-03T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T22:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=139928"},"modified":"2024-01-03T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T22:21:49","slug":"despite-rampant-plagiarism-harvards-gay-to-keep-job-as-professor-earn-nearly-900000-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/despite-rampant-plagiarism-harvards-gay-to-keep-job-as-professor-earn-nearly-900000-per-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite rampant plagiarism, Harvard\u2019s Gay to keep job as professor, earn nearly $900,000 per year"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘It\u2019s unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work,’ GOP rep says<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Claudine Gay may have stepped down as Harvard University’s president on Tuesday amid plagiarism and antisemitism scandals, but the embattled scholar appears poised to land on her feet.<\/p>\n

Gay will keep her job as professor and “resume her faculty position at Harvard,” according to a statement<\/a> Tuesday from the Harvard Corporation, which is in charge of the school.<\/p>\n

“Prior to being named president just six months ago, Gay earned $879,079 as a faculty of arts and sciences dean in 2021 and $824,068 in 2020, according to records published by the university,” the New York Post<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Her new position was not specified Tuesday, but she is expected to receive a salary comparable to what she previously received \u2014 if not higher.”<\/p>\n

Many left-leaning black scholars have raced to Gay’s defense, arguing<\/a> she was forced to resign due to racism.<\/p>\n

\u201cRacist mobs won\u2019t stop until they topple all Black people from positions of power and influence who are not reinforcing the structure of racism,\u201d Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi posted on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Gay announced Tuesday she would resign as president after only five months on the job, blaming in part \u201cracial animus\u201d for her decision in a statement that ignored controversies that engulfed her presidency over the last three months.<\/p>\n

According to the latest count, the total number of plagiarism allegations have now engulfed almost half of Gay’s published works, with nearly 50 examples, Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon<\/em> reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n

Gay also fumbled the institution’s response to a spike in campus antisemitism in the wake of the terrorist attacks Oct. 7 against Israeli civilians and expressed apathy when asked about the genocide of Jews in congressional testimony last month.<\/p>\n

Many rich donors have since yanked their funding and early applications to Harvard have tanked in the wake of the scandals. Several watchdogs are now calling for<\/a> Harvard Corporation members to resign in the wake of the fiasco, blaming their poor leadership for Harvard’s downfall.<\/p>\n

The New York Post<\/em> reported<\/a> Wednesday:<\/p>\n

House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) \u2014 a Harvard graduate who emerged as Gay\u2019s chief critic \u2014 ripped the decision to allow her to remain on the faculty.<\/p>\n

Stefanik argued that Gay\u2019s plagiarism charges are an indelible stain that mars the school\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s not fit to be a faculty member,\u201d Stefanik told The Post.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable when you have students at Harvard who would be expelled for plagiarism to allow a faculty member who has nearly 50 examples of plagiarism in their very slim body of academic work. It\u2019s absurd and everybody knows it. Harvard knows it too.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stefanik, who led the congressional questioning that brought Gay under the spotlight for antisemitism, said in a news release Wednesday that she will continue to keep the heat on Harvard.<\/p>\n

\u201cMs. Stefanik says the House Education and the Workforce Committee\u2019s probe into Harvard will \u2018uncover the absolute negligence and failures of the Harvard Corporation,\u2019 the university\u2019s highest governing body. \u2018It\u2019s going to expose an institutional rot of antisemitism in Harvard as an institution, its failure to protect Jewish students, and its shirking of academic integrity,’\u201d the release\u00a0stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MORE: Harvard Corporation members should resign in wake of Gay fiasco, watchdogs say<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

IMAGE: Harvard Gazette\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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