Bill Ackman's wife, Neri Oxman, admitted plagiarizing her doctoral thesis while earning her doctorate at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she later worked as a tenured professor.
Oxman writes: Post to X “My 330-page doctoral thesis has four paragraphs… [where] I did not put the subject language in quotation marks, but this is the proper way to credit the work. ”
“We regret and apologize for these mistakes,” she shared on Thursday. business insider The paper made the 47-year-old Israeli-born academic aware of a serious flaw.
Oxman, who married the billionaire founder of Pershing Square Capital Management in 2019, earned her doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. She became a tenured professor at the university in 2017 and retired from the university in June 2021.
“After getting married, becoming a mother, and moving to New York City,” she wrote in the post.
around Definition of MIT Plagiarism “occurs when you use someone else's words, ideas, arguments, data, or figures and do not acknowledge that you did so.” This includes if the material “does not cite the source using quotation marks around words.”
Therefore, Oxman's failure to properly cite is considered plagiarism at MIT. result A charge of plagiarism may include “suspension or expulsion from the Institute.”
Mr. Oxman confessed to inappropriate quoting in his doctoral dissertation, following Mr. Ackman's fierce public attack on Harvard University's Claudine Gay. Gay faced numerous allegations of plagiarism in his own academic work and resigned from his position earlier this week.
Oxman wrote to X that after verifying the original source, he intended to “request the necessary corrections from MIT.”
Representatives for MIT and Oxman's latest venture, the biological and materials engineering company OXMAN, did not immediately respond to The Post's request for comment.
Mr. Ackman suggested that the reason Insider cited flaws in Mr. Oxman's work may have been due to his campaign against the former Harvard president, who has been criticized for “bullying” a gay man into resignation. .
“When they go after your wife, in this case my love and life partner @NeriOxman, you know you feel empathy,” he said. shared by Thursday, just minutes after Oxman was admitted to the hospital.
Mr. Ackman, who has one child with Mr. Oxman, even credits his foundation's success to their marriage, but he also boasted about his wife's career at the Post.
“Neri is a former tenured professor at @MIT and is the author of 74 peer-reviewed articles, 8 peer-reviewed book chapters, and numerous other journal articles and proceedings,” the statement said, calling Gaye's plagiarism “very serious.” Ackman said.
However, he dismissed similar allegations against his wife, praising her as “humane” because “she makes mistakes, owns them and apologizes when necessary.”
On Wednesday, after it was revealed that Gay would no longer be Harvard's president, remaining on the Ivy League faculty and maintaining a salary of nearly $900,000, Ackman told X magazine, “Cue serious plagiarism issues. Gays should be fired for good.” ”
“Students are forced to leave school at a much lower cost,” Ackman said. I have written. “Rewarding her with her well-paid faculty position sets a very bad precedent for Harvard's academic integrity.”
A representative for Mr. Ackman at Pershing Square declined to comment, pointing to Mr. Ackman and Mr. Oxman's posts about X.
