Academic fraud is now APPROVED at Harvard

Here's what we know so far: Harvard President Claudine Gay has been accused of plagiarism by copying the work of others, inserting it into her PHD thesis, and not acknowledging it.

This is called "academic fraud".

If anyone else had done this and had been discovered, they would have had their PHD revoked and their academic record would indicate that they cheated.  If they were in a position of leadership and responsibility in a large multi-billion dollar company, they would probably be transferred somewhere out of the limelight and then quietly "let go".

But not Ms. Gay.

I won't speculate on why she isn't being punished for stealing ideas at a university and calling them her own.  Nor will I speculate on why she's being given a chance to "correct the record" and "modify" her PHD accordingly (which is a tacit admission that her PHD should never have been granted in the first place).

It seems like Ms. Gay is being treated with "kid gloves".  I won't speculate on why (he wrote, feigning naivete).

But the sad part of this episode is that it now confirms the fact that Harvard both approves and encourages falsifying academic papers.

So now, the question is: "How many other Harvard graduates received PHDs for work that wasn't their own?"

As they say, if there's smoke there's fire.  Ms. Gay's actions were the fire, and the Harvard Corporation (the BOD) has decided to allow the fire to burn in an uncontrolled manner.

It may not happen now.  It may take years.  But Harvard's action in not disciplining Ms. Gay for obvious and provable academic fraud calls into question whether a Harvard degree - at any level - is worth the paper it's printed on.