Harvard President resigns

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, the biggest winners in this cluster are POS dirtbags like Bill Ackman who have become accustomed to buying access and controlling government officials through PACs and corrupt lobbying efforts (that really amount to honest services fraud, if we're being honest here). The word "No" no longer has any meaning to these petulant children masquerading as adults.

Ackman's wife is also guiding plagiarism in her dissertation and shrubs a tenured professor at MIT. Ackman congratulated her honesty

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/bill-ackman-wife-neri-oxman-apologizes-for-plagiarism-in-her-2010-dissertation-ac01f4ce

She should resign from any positions of power she holds over undergraduates accused of plagiarism as well, then.

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While we're at it, let's examine the academic credentials and background of the interim president of New College in Florida (DeSantis' attempt to present an alternative to "woke" colleges), shall we? Richard Corcoran was installed as interim president of New College by the new board of the college, after the board fired President Patricia Okker, who had only held the position for 19 months. He was paid a base salary of $699,000, which is $400,000 more than Okker made.

Academic background: Corcoran dropped out of University of Florida. He later attended St. Leo College, graduating in 1989, and Regent University [a private Christian university in Virginia Beach, VA founded by Pat Robertson], where he received his Juris Doctor in 1996. While enrolled in college, he served six years in the United States Naval Reserve (1987–1993).

Career:
*lawyer
*former chief of staff to Marco Rubio
*member of the FL House of Representatives
*head of the Florida Education Commission
*registered lobbyist

You can read more about some of his political views and a few scandals associated with him in the link below, but it's clear that he was chosen for his ability to implement DeSantis's priorities--not because he is an academic of note. So if former-president Gay represents DEI politics, this guy represents the opposite of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Corcoran

Ten years ago the idea that you could credibly compare Harvard to New College would have been seen as a joke. Yet here we are. It is remarkable how tainted the Harvard brand is now.

Yes, so tainted that students will be abandoning Harvard shortly and flocking to New College! It will be a veritable stampede.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, the biggest winners in this cluster are POS dirtbags like Bill Ackman who have become accustomed to buying access and controlling government officials through PACs and corrupt lobbying efforts (that really amount to honest services fraud, if we're being honest here). The word "No" no longer has any meaning to these petulant children masquerading as adults.

Ackman's wife is also guiding plagiarism in her dissertation and shrubs a tenured professor at MIT. Ackman congratulated her honesty

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/bill-ackman-wife-neri-oxman-apologizes-for-plagiarism-in-her-2010-dissertation-ac01f4ce

She should resign from any positions of power she holds over undergraduates accused of plagiarism as well, then.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-04/business-insider-says-ackman-s-wife-plagiarized-doctoral-thesis?embedded-checkout=true

May her reputation be ground into the same dust her husband wrought of Gay's ... with unrelenting, clinical, and dispassionate finality.

Bye, Neri!

[Anonymous]

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While we're at it, let's examine the academic credentials and background of the interim president of New College in Florida (DeSantis' attempt to present an alternative to "woke" colleges), shall we? Richard Corcoran was installed as interim president of New College by the new board of the college, after the board fired President Patricia Okker, who had only held the position for 19 months. He was paid a base salary of $699,000, which is $400,000 more than Okker made.

Academic background: Corcoran dropped out of University of Florida. He later attended St. Leo College, graduating in 1989, and Regent University [a private Christian university in Virginia Beach, VA founded by Pat Robertson], where he received his Juris Doctor in 1996. While enrolled in college, he served six years in the United States Naval Reserve (1987–1993).

Career:
*lawyer
*former chief of staff to Marco Rubio
*member of the FL House of Representatives
*head of the Florida Education Commission
*registered lobbyist

You can read more about some of his political views and a few scandals associated with him in the link below, but it's clear that he was chosen for his ability to implement DeSantis's priorities--not because he is an academic of note. So if former-president Gay represents DEI politics, this guy represents the opposite of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Corcoran

Ten years ago the idea that you could credibly compare Harvard to New College would have been seen as a joke. Yet here we are. It is remarkable how tainted the Harvard brand is now.

Part of the all the Ivy brands fall has to with how corrupted the US News and World Report rankings have become.

They were once based on merit and objective factors. They were once reliable.

It was ironically DEI which became a “factor” and has now rendered the rankings largely useless.

[Anonymous]

But, wait, there's more! Turns out "At least 15 passages from her 2010 MIT doctoral dissertation were lifted without any citation from Wikipedia entries."

She is so lazy she copied entire passages word-for-word from Wikipedia! She not only copied without any attribution from Wikipedia but also from other websites, a textbook and academic paper. See for yourself.

https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipedia-mit-dissertation-2024-1

And when confronted with this information, her husband Bill Ackman promptly engaged in a tit-for-tat by saying he is going to expose plagiarism at yet another institution--MIT! That'll show the world!

"It is unfortunate that my actions to address problems in higher education have led to these attacks on my family. This experience has inspired me to save all news organizations from the trouble of doing plagiarism reviews," he wrote to his 1 million followers. He pledged to conduct a thorough review of MIT president Sally Kornbluth, all MIT faculty, and board members and other officers of the MIT Corporation for evidence of plagiarism, using MIT's plagiarism standards.

"We will share our findings in the public domain as they are completed in the spirit of transparency," he said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DEI advocates would be well advised to forget about Claudine Gay. Harvard didn't vet her credentials well and let's face it, some hires just don't work out. If progressives make her the poster girl for DEI, then they are making a mistake and will only have themselves to blame when the whole concept becomes discredited.

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I find it beyond appalling that Gay is blaming her resignation on "racism." Seriously?? Biden was caught plagiarizing and last I checked, he's a white man. Anyone can be a plagiarist, including Claudine Gay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DEI advocates would be well advised to forget about Claudine Gay. Harvard didn't vet her credentials well and let's face it, some hires just don't work out. If progressives make her the poster girl for DEI, then they are making a mistake and will only have themselves to blame when the whole concept becomes discredited.

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I find it beyond appalling that Gay is blaming her resignation on "racism." Seriously?? Biden was caught plagiarizing and last I checked, he's a white man. Anyone can be a plagiarist, including Claudine Gay.

Agreed. Even the wife of the main anti-plagiarism crusader can be a plagiarist as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But, wait, there's more! Turns out "At least 15 passages from her 2010 MIT doctoral dissertation were lifted without any citation from Wikipedia entries."

She is so lazy she copied entire passages word-for-word from Wikipedia! She not only copied without any attribution from Wikipedia but also from other websites, a textbook and academic paper. See for yourself.

https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipedia-mit-dissertation-2024-1

And when confronted with this information, her husband Bill Ackman promptly engaged in a tit-for-tat by saying he is going to expose plagiarism at yet another institution--MIT! That'll show the world!

"It is unfortunate that my actions to address problems in higher education have led to these attacks on my family. This experience has inspired me to save all news organizations from the trouble of doing plagiarism reviews," he wrote to his 1 million followers. He pledged to conduct a thorough review of MIT president Sally Kornbluth, all MIT faculty, and board members and other officers of the MIT Corporation for evidence of plagiarism, using MIT's plagiarism standards.

"We will share our findings in the public domain as they are completed in the spirit of transparency," he said.

This woman is a grifter through and through.

You got to read the story about how Ackman met her. As soon as his divorce was announced, it was clear that she was meeting with his acquaintances and trying to get them to “recommend” that he goes on a date with her.

Ackman got hustled so badly by this woman:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/fashion/weddings/as-if-by-design-their-connection-was-inevitable.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, the biggest winners in this cluster are POS dirtbags like Bill Ackman who have become accustomed to buying access and controlling government officials through PACs and corrupt lobbying efforts (that really amount to honest services fraud, if we're being honest here). The word "No" no longer has any meaning to these petulant children masquerading as adults.

Ackman's wife is also guiding plagiarism in her dissertation and shrubs a tenured professor at MIT. Ackman congratulated her honesty

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/bill-ackman-wife-neri-oxman-apologizes-for-plagiarism-in-her-2010-dissertation-ac01f4ce

She should resign from any positions of power she holds over undergraduates accused of plagiarism as well, then.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-04/business-insider-says-ackman-s-wife-plagiarized-doctoral-thesis?embedded-checkout=true

May her reputation be ground into the same dust her husband wrought of Gay's ... with unrelenting, clinical, and dispassionate finality.

Bye, Neri!

Agreed! But, can she claim "racism" as a result?? Enquiring minds want to know.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, the biggest winners in this cluster are POS dirtbags like Bill Ackman who have become accustomed to buying access and controlling government officials through PACs and corrupt lobbying efforts (that really amount to honest services fraud, if we're being honest here). The word "No" no longer has any meaning to these petulant children masquerading as adults.

Ackman's wife is also guiding plagiarism in her dissertation and shrubs a tenured professor at MIT. Ackman congratulated her honesty

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/bill-ackman-wife-neri-oxman-apologizes-for-plagiarism-in-her-2010-dissertation-ac01f4ce

She should resign from any positions of power she holds over undergraduates accused of plagiarism as well, then.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-04/business-insider-says-ackman-s-wife-plagiarized-doctoral-thesis?embedded-checkout=true

May her reputation be ground into the same dust her husband wrought of Gay's ... with unrelenting, clinical, and dispassionate finality.

Bye, Neri!

Agreed! But, can she claim "racism" as a result?? Enquiring minds want to know.
DP

Of course not, silly. She is white. But she can certainly claim antisemitism.

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In many ways, a business or non profit executive is much more qualified to run a university than an academic professor or researcher.

Business or non-profit executives would certainly have conducted at least minimal due diligence on Dr. Gay, and discovered how paltry (just 11 highly-dubious published works) she had completed prior to becoming president, indicating a massive deficit of merit.

In contrast, the only possible conclusion is the Harvard board installed Dr. Gay purely on DEI principles.

Why did New College in FL install their interim president? Was it purely on "merit"?

Does Harvard consider New College in FL to be its peer institution?

De Santis does.

He should know...he's a graduate.

Yes, a Republican graduate of not one but TWO "elite" "woke" institutions, which opened a lot of doors for him: "At Yale, he joined St. Elmo, one of the school’s “secret societies,” long known as breeding grounds of future senators and presidents. Though he says Harvard was gripped by left-wing “critical legal studies,” the doctrine was long on the wane by the time he arrived, and the school provided entree to the power brokers of the conservative Federalist Society. When he went into politics, his elite résumé helped him court wealthy donors, raise money and garner introductions to prominent Republicans. As he acknowledged in a panel discussion back in Cambridge, Mass., shortly before he first ran for governor, “Harvard opens a lot of doors” for aspiring politicians."

You cannot possibly be equating the Yale and Harvard of the late 1990s/early 2000s to today's Yale in terms of "wokeness," which wasn't even a thing when he was there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DEI advocates would be well advised to forget about Claudine Gay. Harvard didn't vet her credentials well and let's face it, some hires just don't work out. If progressives make her the poster girl for DEI, then they are making a mistake and will only have themselves to blame when the whole concept becomes discredited.

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I find it beyond appalling that Gay is blaming her resignation on "racism." Seriously?? Biden was caught plagiarizing and last I checked, he's a white man. Anyone can be a plagiarist, including Claudine Gay.

Agreed. Even the wife of the main anti-plagiarism crusader can be a plagiarist as well.

Yes. At least she apologized right away instead of denying the facts and blaming the accusations on "racism".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, the biggest winners in this cluster are POS dirtbags like Bill Ackman who have become accustomed to buying access and controlling government officials through PACs and corrupt lobbying efforts (that really amount to honest services fraud, if we're being honest here). The word "No" no longer has any meaning to these petulant children masquerading as adults.

Ackman's wife is also guiding plagiarism in her dissertation and shrubs a tenured professor at MIT. Ackman congratulated her honesty

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/bill-ackman-wife-neri-oxman-apologizes-for-plagiarism-in-her-2010-dissertation-ac01f4ce

She should resign from any positions of power she holds over undergraduates accused of plagiarism as well, then.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-04/business-insider-says-ackman-s-wife-plagiarized-doctoral-thesis?embedded-checkout=true

May her reputation be ground into the same dust her husband wrought of Gay's ... with unrelenting, clinical, and dispassionate finality.

Bye, Neri!

Agreed! But, can she claim "racism" as a result?? Enquiring minds want to know.
DP

Of course not, silly. She is white. But she can certainly claim antisemitism.

I was joking. It's funny how it's ok to accuse white people of plagiarism, but "racist" when the plagiarist is black.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But, wait, there's more! Turns out "At least 15 passages from her 2010 MIT doctoral dissertation were lifted without any citation from Wikipedia entries."

She is so lazy she copied entire passages word-for-word from Wikipedia! She not only copied without any attribution from Wikipedia but also from other websites, a textbook and academic paper. See for yourself.

https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipedia-mit-dissertation-2024-1

And when confronted with this information, her husband Bill Ackman promptly engaged in a tit-for-tat by saying he is going to expose plagiarism at yet another institution--MIT! That'll show the world!

"It is unfortunate that my actions to address problems in higher education have led to these attacks on my family. This experience has inspired me to save all news organizations from the trouble of doing plagiarism reviews," he wrote to his 1 million followers. He pledged to conduct a thorough review of MIT president Sally Kornbluth, all MIT faculty, and board members and other officers of the MIT Corporation for evidence of plagiarism, using MIT's plagiarism standards.

"We will share our findings in the public domain as they are completed in the spirit of transparency," he said.

This woman is a grifter through and through.

You got to read the story about how Ackman met her. As soon as his divorce was announced, it was clear that she was meeting with his acquaintances and trying to get them to “recommend” that he goes on a date with her.

Ackman got hustled so badly by this woman:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/fashion/weddings/as-if-by-design-their-connection-was-inevitable.html

Ugh…she’s nauseating. Why do people write this kind of drivel and put it out there for everyone to read? No self-awareness whatsoever. Both she and her husband suffer from massive egos.

“Bill inspires me to assume a bigger identity, to grow while being grounded, but not without asking me the hard questions,” said Ms. Oxman, who cited their many things in common.

“We both appreciate the expansiveness of life, love and living associated with cultivating, building, sharing and inspiring a creative life,” she said, “one that transcends the often-prescribed categories of family and work and unites them into synergy.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But, wait, there's more! Turns out "At least 15 passages from her 2010 MIT doctoral dissertation were lifted without any citation from Wikipedia entries."

She is so lazy she copied entire passages word-for-word from Wikipedia! She not only copied without any attribution from Wikipedia but also from other websites, a textbook and academic paper. See for yourself.

https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipedia-mit-dissertation-2024-1

And when confronted with this information, her husband Bill Ackman promptly engaged in a tit-for-tat by saying he is going to expose plagiarism at yet another institution--MIT! That'll show the world!

"It is unfortunate that my actions to address problems in higher education have led to these attacks on my family. This experience has inspired me to save all news organizations from the trouble of doing plagiarism reviews," he wrote to his 1 million followers. He pledged to conduct a thorough review of MIT president Sally Kornbluth, all MIT faculty, and board members and other officers of the MIT Corporation for evidence of plagiarism, using MIT's plagiarism standards.

"We will share our findings in the public domain as they are completed in the spirit of transparency," he said.

This woman is a grifter through and through.

You got to read the story about how Ackman met her. As soon as his divorce was announced, it was clear that she was meeting with his acquaintances and trying to get them to “recommend” that he goes on a date with her.

Ackman got hustled so badly by this woman:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/fashion/weddings/as-if-by-design-their-connection-was-inevitable.html

That's what you got from that wedding announcement? That somehow she got his friends to "recommend" her? You are truly nutty.
DP