Harvard University President Claudine Gay is facing allegations of plagiarism and is now making additional corrections to her academic publications. The House committee has announced an investigation into the matter. Gay initially came under fire when she, along with other university presidents, failed to explicitly state that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate their school codes of conduct during a congressional hearing. Gay survived calls for her resignation but now faces scrutiny over alleged instances of plagiarism in her past work.
Last week, Gay made corrections to two academic papers and is now submitting corrections to her dissertation, which she wrote as a PhD student in the 1990s. In response, a university spokesperson stated that while the inadequate citations were regrettable, they did not constitute research misconduct. The university did not label Gay's actions as plagiarism.
