{"id":139949,"date":"2024-01-04T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=139949"},"modified":"2024-01-05T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T18:54:49","slug":"ap-says-plagiarism-is-new-conservative-weapon-against-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/ap-says-plagiarism-is-new-conservative-weapon-against-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"AP says plagiarism ‘new conservative weapon’ against higher ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Journalist Christopher Rufo announces ‘fund’ for ‘plagiarism hunting’<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Identifying instances of plagiarism is a “weapon” conservatives plan to use “against colleges,” the Associated Press wrote in the aftermath of Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigning.<\/p>\n

The AP reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The campaign against Gay and other Ivy League presidents has become part of a broader right-wing effort to remake higher education, which has often been seen as a bastion of liberalism. Republican detractors have sought to gut funding for public universities, roll back tenure and banish initiatives that make colleges more welcoming to students of color, disabled students and the LGBTQ+ community. They also have aimed to limit how race and gender are discussed in classrooms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The AP credited people such as Christopher Rufo for leading the charge, along with\u00a0The Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, which also highlighted Gay’s plagiarism.<\/p>\n

“I am contributing an initial $10,000 to a ‘plagiarism hunting’ fund,” Rufo wrote on X prior to the AP. “We will expose the rot in the Ivy League and restore truth, rather than racialist ideology, as the highest principle in academic life.”<\/p>\n

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ANNOUNCEMENT: I am contributing an initial $10,000 to a “plagiarism hunting” fund. We will expose the rot in the Ivy League and restore truth, rather than racialist ideology, as the highest principle in academic life.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) January 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n