It's been a rough week for Harvard University President Claudine Gay. First, she was roundly criticized for her disastrous Dec. 5 congressional testimony where she and the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania claimed that calls for genocide against Jews on their campuses needed to be placed into “context.” 

Donors promptly yanked hundreds of millions of dollars in future gifts from UPenn, and president Liz Magill was forced to resign Saturday as a result of the raging controversy.

Things continued to go poorly for Gay as well, and on Sunday RedState reported that journalist Chris Rufo had evidence that she might have plagiarized parts of her Ph.D. dissertation, which obviously would have violated Harvard's policies on academic integrity. 

The news got even worse Monday for Gay as a new report alleges that scholars reviewing her work found dozens more examples of plagiarism in her past. 

SCOOP: Rufo’s examples are just the tip of the iceberg. In four articles published between 1993 and 2017, including her dissertation, Gay paraphrased or quoted almost 20 authors without proper attribution, in some cases lifting entire paragraphs verbatim.🧵https://t.co/5NRutvKCHE

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) December 11, 2023

The accusations if true are damning:

In four papers published between 1993 and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation, Gay, a political scientist, paraphrased or quoted nearly 20 authors—including two of her colleagues in Harvard University’s department of government—without proper attribution, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. Other examples of possible plagiarism, all from Gay’s dissertation, were publicized Sunday by the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo and Karlstack’s Chris Brunet.

The Free Beacon worked with nearly a dozen scholars to analyze 29 potential cases of plagiarism. Most of them said that Gay had violated a core principle of academic integrity as well as Harvard’s own anti-plagiarism policies, which state that "it's not enough to change a few words here and there."

The article lists numerous examples of Gay "borrowing" other people's work and presenting it as her own; here's but one:

But in at least 10 instances, Gay lifted full sentences—even entire paragraphs—with just a word or two tweaked.

In her 1997 thesis, for example, she borrowed a full paragraph from a paper by the scholars Bradley Palmquist, then a political science professor at Harvard, and Stephen Voss, one of Gay’s classmates in her Ph.D. program at Harvard, while making only a couple alterations, including changing their "decrease" to "increase" because she was studying a different set of data.

Alexander Riley, a sociologist at Bucknell University, doesn't see how she can continue at the Ivy League school: "The question here is whether the president of an elite institution such as Harvard can feasibly have an academic record this marred by obvious plagiarism," he said. "I do not see how Harvard could possibly justify keeping her in that position in light of this evidence."

Even some of Harvard's own alumni see the problem: 

"It seems clear that Gay had a habit of using others' words in ways that violated Harvard's policies," a professor at a top research university, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard’s government department, told the Free Beacon. "And several examples would land any student in serious trouble."

Gay, former UPenn President Magill, and MIT President Sally Kornbluth exposed the antisemitism they've allowed to fester in the open on our nation's campuses. Gay's job should not be allowed to survive after her terrible testimony, and I really don't see how it can should these serious cheating accusations prove true. 

Her testimony showed she's terrible at being a leader, and her rampant plagiarism shows she's not a qualified academic either. The National Association of Scholars agrees:

BREAKING: The National Association of Scholars calls on Harvard to remove Claudine Gay as president of the university. The esteemed group notes Gay's "shoddy professional work," "record of plagiarism," and "promotion of racist policies." Momentum is building. pic.twitter.com/F3Nz6hUex6

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 11, 2023