In recent developments, Harvard University may be at risk of losing its federal funding. This is due to how the school’s board handled the plagiarism scandal that eventually led to the resignation of the immediate past president, Claudine Gay.
Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania came under fire late last year. Jews on these campuses cried out about the rise of antisemitism and the call for another Jewish genocide. So much so that the three presidents of these institutions had to appear before Congress to explain the situation on their respective campuses.
MIT and UPenn are no longer in the headlines; however, Harvard University is still on the hook of public opinion. Harvard University has a peculiar challenge because of the plagiarism scandal of her now ex-president, Gay.
Just a few days after Gay’s hearing before Congress, a private team of academic investigators published findings that revealed extensive instances of plagiarism on Gay’s Ph.D. dissertation. The investigation, posted on X by Christopher Rufo and Chris Brunet, will eventually snowball into Gay’s resignation.
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However, before Gay’s resignation, the Harvard Corporation released a statement offering their unanimous backing of the embattled president. This is despite all the evidence against her.
Now, a non-profit organization is calling Harvard’s academic standards into question. The allegations of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) is that the school board intentionally covered up the plagiarism crisis of the ex-president. So, maybe it is high time the federal government stops funding Harvard programs. That will be a loss of funding, running into millions per school year.
So, to prove that the academic credibility of Harvard is still intact, ACTA requests a fresh string of accreditations from the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). The NECHE is a group that has been responsible for university accreditations in the US since 1885.
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The ACTA made their request formal by sending a 12-page complaint to NECHE. The ACTA points out that Harvard University now “appears to have willfully and persistently operated outside of Harvard’s established procedures.” The ACTA also highlights the school authorities’ negligence in not appropriately reporting misconduct and, indeed, covering it up.
The ACTA is breathing down the neck of the Harvard Corporation and other relevant authorities of the institution. They are bent on calling out the slack methods with which the misconduct of ex-president Gay was prosecuted.
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Likewise, the ACTA referred to Havard’s policy on reporting academic misconduct. The code requires the source of misconduct allegations to report such to the relevant authorities as soon as possible. Also, under no circumstance is the academic staff under investigation allowed to initiate retaliatory action of any form against the complainant.
Unfortunately, that was precisely what Claudine Gay did after the instances of plagiarism in her dissertation went public. The New York Post reported that before her resignation, Claudine Gay hired an expensive law firm to stop the media outlet from proceeding with an independent probe into her misconduct allegations.
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