…who the real victim in the Claudine Gay flap at Harvard (according to the university’s governing “Corportation”) actually is.
It’s Claudine Gay:
“And she’d have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for those darn meddling pouncing conservativesI”!
And while Gay is gone, let’s remember that it’s not for the reason she should have been tossed:
And that’s the real atrocity, here.
UPDATE: The “community” is speaking:
My question: Is the AP proverbially “saying the quiet part out loud” – is plagiarism the new norm among “elite academics”?
She still has a job at Harvard making good money. She only lost the title of President, she’s still on staff as a professor.
“We hired her solely because she’s a Black woman.”
She’s a thief of intellectual property aka plagerist, which is incompatable with a leadership position in an institution of higher learning.
“You’re attacking her solely because she’s a Black woman.”
Sigh.
While President Gay has acknowledged missteps and has taken responsibility for them
Ever notice how taking responsibility for some action nowadays is a nothing more than a trite catchphrase (for DemoCommies)?
It’s mindful of that iowahawk tweet but in this case, lefties find some respected behavior, kill it, gut it, and wear the carcass as a skin suit demanding respect.
As FRESCHFISCH points out, she’ll still get almost $1 million. Watch for the book deal, which is how the DemoCommies reward their loyal apparatchiks, with huge “advances”.
No, Claudine Gay was not forced to resign because she was a black woman.
Nor did she resign for being a plagiarist.
She had to go because she threatened the whole enterprise of progressive/left control.
Harvard exists to credentialize the legacy nitwits who populate the deep state and that is an asset which cannot be devalued.
For reference, I sent my brother (Hahvid 1993) a note and verified that the unofficial fight song has been changed from “Fight Fiercely, Harvard” to “Lobachevsky” by Tom Lehrer.
For the uninitiated, the key lyrics are:
Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Let no man’s work evade your eyes! Remember why the Good Lord made your eyes, so Plagiarize! But be sure to call it…research.
Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism
If plagiarism is now merely a weapon to attack academia’s faculty and no longer an academic standard to be upheld, then that further cheapens the value of buying and owning a college degree. If I were wearing my cynical tinfoil hat, I might go so far as to mutter under my breath “as intended”
(Earning a college degree? Apparently not any more.)
If committing plagiarism is something no longer for which people should be punished, then why can’t every assignment, paper, thesis and dissertation be wholly created by ChatGPT? The only difference is whether the information source’s carbon molecules were arranged by biologic or mechanical/electronic means.
Unless the quoted phrase of “weaponization” only applies when it is used “against” diverse/intersectional liberal/Democrat academicians.
My brother’s real comment about Gay’s resignation; since she’s still on faculty, the stain on Harvard is just as bad, but they’ve moved it off the front pages of the newspapers. I’m thinking we need to keep pressing until she’s kicked out of her plush professor’s office, too.
bike;
That should apply to a lot of woke “professors”. Kick them out and pull their tenure for supporting antisemitism and terrorists.
On a somewhat related note, regarding the value of a degree, what happens when courses are continuously being conducted by grad students, instead of the professors? If my kids experienced this, I would have been at the chief administrator’s office raising hell.
I was one of those horrible grad instructors once upon a time–and even paid for most of my room and board as an undergrad teaching remedial math. :^)
My take on that practice is that there are a tremendous number of undergrad classes that really don’t “need” to be taught by anyone with a doctorate, and a lot of what’s going on, IMO, is that the universities are helping themselves to peoples’ best ideas “on the cheap” by putting them into a doctoral dissertation instead of allowing the person to publish on his own.
It’s a form of indentured servitude, really, and it ought to be viewed in light of the notion that (a) an earned doctorate requires a person to come up with “something new” in the scheme of knowledge and (b) there is only so much truth out there in a given area. So our requirement for an earned doctorate to teach at the undergrad level tends to serve to (a) lead to a number of dissertations which are politely speaking bulls**t and (b) leads to dissertations that plagiarize other work.
(to draw a picture, Isaac Newton’s degree was the equivalent of a bachelor’s…)
Sounds a bit like sending Al Capone to prison for tax evasion.
@bikebubba The need for grad instructors paid for my grad degrees, so I can’t complain. In fact, it pretty much paid for my education from my sophomore year until my Ph.D. (I taught pre-calc math starting in the Spring of my sophomore year, then calc, and eventually EE undergrad and even grad classes as my major shifted). I don’t view it as having a great deal to do with the shift in BS dissertations.
Looking at the education departments, it’s more a function of the Feds pushing unionized teachers. Teacher’s unions demand more compensation for advanced degrees, leading to colleges offering bullsh*t “advanced” degrees to cater to teachers who want more money. Don’t believe me? At my last institution the College of Education had an average graduate GPA of 3.98 — we used to joke that someone, somewhere once got an A- for not showing up to class.
I don’t know about colleges of engineering, but most liberal arts departments became idiots around the time they started pushing “diversity”. I know several professors who despaired of what their fields/departments became because it became more important to hire professors with the right “hue and beliefs” than actual scholarship. That decline in the importance of scholarship has led to a further incidence and acceptance of things like plagiarism in advancement of ideology. These days, I view liberal arts degrees more a proof that you can parrot a position than proof you can reason.
And yes, it was making inroads into the hard sciences as I lost touch of colleges in recent years. I don’t do adjunct work anymore, and I have absolutely NO interest in heading into academe these days.