The House Committee on Education and the Workforce announced an expansion of the investigation into Harvard University to include allegations of plagiarism against the school’s president.
The move comes a day after Harvard received a 37-page complaint detailing more than 40 possible instances of plagiarism committed by Harvard President Claudine Gay. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a four-page letter to Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the school’s highest governing body, asking for additional information by Dec. 29.
“Our concern is that standards are not being applied consistently, resulting in different rules for different members of the academic community,” Foxx wrote, per a Bloomberg report. “If a university is willing to look the other way and not hold faculty accountable for engaging in academically dishonest behavior, it cheapens its mission and the value of its education.”
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The House first opened an investigation into Harvard over accusations of antisemitism amid the war in Gaza, but negative attention to the school exploded after a widely panned testimony from Gay and two other Ivy League presidents, who repeatedly refused to say that calling for the genocide of Jews was a violation of school policy.
Gay has since come under intense criticism and faced calls to resign, which the school has so far rebuffed. The spotlight on the president helped uncover extensive allegations of plagiarism over her academic career, further fueling calls for her to resign.
