Harvard drops its standards and chases woke cred by covering for Claudine Gay
NY Post
Prospective students are starting to shun Harvard, and it’s easy to see why: The school is not only dangerous for Jews, it’s abandoning excellence in its rush to stand by its woke choice for president.
Early-admission applications to Harvard College just dropped 17% from last year — a clear sign of lost prestige thanks to rank antisemitism on campus and the plagiarism scandal surrounding President Claudine Gay.
That scandal is as much about Harvard itself as Gay, since it’s now obvious that the school has put more effort into protecting her than into upholding to its supposedly rigorous academic standards.
On Dec. 9, when the Harvard Corp. first publicly addressed Gay’s plagiarism problems, it falsely claimed it had already completed a thorough, independent investigation, finding only “a few instances of inadequate citation” and saying she’d make four “clarifications” to two of her published papers.
But on Wednesday the university confirmed that more fixes are needed in her PhD thesis, which its first investigation didn’t even check.
Indeed, that first probe broke from Harvard’s established, formal procedures for checking plagiarism allegations.
