{"id":140112,"date":"2024-01-08T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=140112"},"modified":"2024-01-08T12:32:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:32:16","slug":"professor-plagiarized-by-gay-attacks-rufo-for-harvard-extension-school-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/professor-plagiarized-by-gay-attacks-rufo-for-harvard-extension-school-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor plagiarized by Gay attacks Rufo for Harvard Extension School degree"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Those students are great – I teach them- but they are not the same as what we normally think of as Harvard graduate students’<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The ongoing fallout from the resignation<\/a> of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University includes rehashing an old argument against conservative journalist Christopher Rufo and his degree from the institution.<\/p>\n

Rufo has a master’s degree from Harvard Extension School, which is open enrollment.<\/p>\n

Gay copied work<\/a> from Professor Jennifer Hochschild, including several sentences of an acknowledgement in the former president’s doctoral thesis. She also will reportedly continue to draw a nearly $900,000 salary<\/a> as a professor despite nearly 50 accusations of plagiarism that covered about half of her published works. But Hochschild turned her sights toward Rufo over the weekend.<\/p>\n

“On Rufo: what do integrity police say about his claim to have ‘master\u2019s degree from Harvard,’ which is actually from the open-enrollment Extension School?” she wrote<\/a> on X. “Those students are great – I teach them- but they are not the same as what we normally think of as Harvard graduate students.”<\/p>\n

In a second post she wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rufo could have proudly and honorably said, “I pulled myself up by bootstraps;to prove it I have master’s degree from Harvard extension school, along with other smart and gutsy students.” Instead he used weasel words to try to attach himself to Ivy status and prestige.Insecurity??<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“You’re a joke. Claudine Gay plagiarized the acknowledgements from one of your papers and now, out of some bizarre desire for revenge, you’re trashing your own university’s continuing education school,” Rufo wrote<\/a> in response. “Have a Metamucil and delete your account.”<\/p>\n

Others, such as conservative documentarian Dinesh D’Souza noted that Hochschild’s criticism of Rufo only makes her own university look bad.<\/p>\n

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So a rude, crude, \u201cHarvard extension\u201d guy who didn\u2019t go to Harvard, brought down the Harvard president over the fierce objections of the Harvard board and the Harvard establishment. Well, what does that say about the Harvard establishment?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n