Sherry Ann Charleston, Harvard University’s chief diversity officer, has been accused of plagiarism in a new complaint alleging that Charleston claimed credit for her husband’s research.
Harvard University claims that its chief diversity and inclusion officer plagiarized some of her academic work, cited large portions of the text without including quotation marks, and even cited credit for research conducted by her own husband. He said he received a complaint alleging theft. report By the Washington Free Beacon.
Harvard University President Dr. Claudine Gay testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. The committee held hearings investigating anti-Semitism on college campuses. (Kevin Dietch/Getty)
The complaint reportedly cites 40 instances of plagiarism across Charleston’s publishing record.
For example, Charleston is accused of quoting or paraphrasing nearly a dozen scholars in his 2009 doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan without proper attribution.
The complaint alleges that “portions of Charleston’s paper had previously been published verbatim by her advisor, Rebecca Scott, and others,” and added, “Charleston has quoted from other scholars’ works without quotation marks. Please quote the entire sentence and paragraph, then include the correct reference somewhere in the footnote that ends the long paragraph.”
Interestingly, one of the allegations concerns the only peer-reviewed paper Charleston published in 2014, co-authored with her husband, LaVar Charleston, vice provost for DEI at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. .
The study, which was also co-authored by Gerrand Jackson, has been criticized for having the same methods, findings, and even interviews with participants as a 2012 study authored solely by LaVar Charleston.
“The 2014 paper appears to be a complete fabrication,” said Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars and former Boston University vice president. “This is research fraud, pure and simple.”
Notably, the allegations against Charleston came after recently ousted Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned following her own plagiarism scandal. The scandal came to light after the university failed to address anti-Semitism on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Her damning testimony about anti-Semitism during a December Congressional hearing.
This is not the only academic problem that has come to light recently at Ivy League universities.
As Breitbart News reported last week, top cancer researchers at Harvard University have been accused of scientific fraud that affected 37 studies. The researchers are also suspected of manipulating the data images using simple methods such as copy-and-paste and Adobe Photoshop.
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