A new book is attempting to hold officials at some of the nation’s top colleges accountable as concerns over plagiarism among academics at schools like Harvard University mount.
Harvard hired an independent panel to investigate its then-president Claudine Gay, who was accused of plagiarism by a political scientist. The allegation involved Gay’s Ph.D. thesis which led to her appointment as the school’s top official.
But Carol Swain, the author of “The Gay Affair,” says her new book is not directed at Harvard specifically but uses the case of the university’s now ex-president to spotlight what may be happening at other top schools.
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