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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]B.U., just across the river, recently hired its first woman president--she also happens to be black. Will her body of research work be scrutinized as well to dig up instances of improper citation?[/quote]

Everyone's body of research is supposed to withstand scrutiny. I have really mixed feelings about the entire Claudine Gay situation but your research is supposed to be reproducible and faultlessly documented. That's how you support your scholarly argument, not with mere Colbertian "truthiness".[/quote]

Well, then, going forward I would expect the complete body of work of each prospective Harvard president to be given the same scrutiny. The fact that Gay's plagiarism was brought to light i[u]n the context of[/u] efforts to oust her due to her congressional testimony re: campus anti-semitism makes it seem that more was at stake than just the comments she made--or didn't make--during her testimony. [/quote]

DP. I mean, this is just basic due diligence. It should be disqualifying for any president of any university to have plagiarized work, especially since these same universities take such hard lines on students who plagiarize work (as they should). It is actually astonishing to me that Harvard was so sloppy as to not vet Gay’s work for basic academic honesty, proper citations, etc., before appointing her president. I’m not familiar with her academic publications, but it doesn’t sound like there were so many of them such that this would be infeasible or anything.

I do agree that these instances of plagiarism were clearly dug up by someone with an axe to grind over the Congressional testimony, which sucks. But the allegations themselves are credible and they’re extremely embarrassing for Harvard. It’s not like they could keep her on.[/quote

I agree that plagiarism should be disqualifying--for a university president or just plain old professor. There are multiple plagiarism detection programs now that can quickly find instances of plagiarism, and AI will no doubt make them even more accurate. They should be used routinely before hiring an academic. I suspect that there are other academics--at HU or elsewhere--whose work would not withstand such scrutiny and some of them will be white. [/quote]

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