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Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how individuals' various social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege.
originally posted by: zosimov
The spotlight on President Gay has unveiled several cases of direct plagiarism in her work. Not only did she lift direct quotes from her sourced work, in some cases she failed to cite them entirely.
Scholar and political scientist Carol Swain called for embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay to step down after the school’s highest governing body stood by her despite admitting a probe found "instances of inadequate citation" in her academic writings.
"Claudine Gay needs to step down. Obviously, the Harvard Corporation did not have the courage to fire its first Black president, someone who should never have been elevated in the first place," Swain, a retired Vanderbilt University professor, told Fox News Digital. Swain's work was among the academic literature allegedly lifted by Gay in past writings without proper citation, according to reports last week.
originally posted by: marg6043
Well this what happen when the trash with diplomas get to be in positions of power in places of what is been "called" higher. education.
Harvad has turned into trash taking money from foreign groups and allowing agendas fill their curriculum.
Yep Harvard is nothing but trash.
originally posted by: zosimov
Harvard University has had its share of press in the past few years. In a landmark Supreme Court decision, Harvard’s practice of illegally discriminating against the most qualified students based on their race was forced to an end. Read more about the decision here: en.wikipedia.org...
Then we had 31 Harvard student groups sign and release a statement in the days following the filmed rape, torture, and murder of over one thousand Israeli citizens that led off with this:
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
Which, along with a history of antisemitism which predated the current crisis (www.cnn.com... www.algemeiner.com...), prompted Congress’s House Education and Workforce Committee to invite the President of Harvard, Dr. Claudine Gay, to Congress to testify.
In the following clip, presidents of MIT, U Penn, and Harvard claim they need to know the context before they could assert that calling for the genocide of Jews violates the bullying and harrassment policy at the school.
In a support letter, a Harvard law professor agreed that there are some contexts within which calling for the genocide of Jews does not violate Harvard’s bullying and harrassment policy (if you are not sure why the above is abhorrent, I invite you to replace “Jews” with any of the protected intersectionalities in the US and imagine which context would make it appropriate to call for their genocide):
www.msn.com...
SNL sided with the presidents who couldn’t find it in them to admit that calling for the genocide of Jews constitutes bullying and harassment against their Jewish population, depicting the questioner as the crazy shrew and the stunned presidents as innocent ingenues who unwittingly had wandered into a trap:
Understandably, there has been some backlash regarding this incident. Many were calling for the resignation of the three woke presidents, and U Penn’s ex-President Liz Magill has already done so.
Now for the funny part, and the inspiration for this opinion piece:
The spotlight on President Gay has unveiled several cases of direct plagiarism in her work. Not only did she lift direct quotes from her sourced work, in some cases she failed to cite them entirely.
twitter.com...
Part of my job is to recognize what constitutes plagiarism and enforce the penalties. Anyone who has spent any amount of time in academia knows what paraphrase does and does not mean, and the consequences of plagiarizing work. Suddenly, Harvard, an institution once considered to be among the top in the nation, doesn’t know exactly what constitutes plagiarism, and how many words an author can steal from another with no quotes, no attribution, and no use of synonyms or change in phrasing or structure. In a letter rallying support for President Gay, Harvard states:
“While the analysis found no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct, President Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications.”
www.harvard.edu...
So now we have a precedent. Students are permitted to take direct phrases and quotes from a source, without citation, and copy them into their own work with no repercussions and no problem so long as when they’re caught they retroactively add quotes and sources to their work.
Once again, Harvard is proudly leading academia in the left direction.
(Another article defending the "mostly bogus plagiarism charges"):
newrepublic.com...
Carnegie Mellon University received the most from foreign entities in that time span at $1.47 billion while Cornell University scooped up $1.29 billion, Harvard University notched $894 million and MIT collected $859 million, according to the report.