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Harvard University’s DEI maven [aka: chief diversity and inclusion officer] has been hit with dozens of plagiarism allegations tied to her academic work, in the spirit of the school's former disgraced president Claudine Gay. One of the plagiarism claims is that she failed to properly cite her husband's study.
The formerly prestigious school was handed an anonymous complaint on Monday listing at least 40 examples of alleged plagiarism by Sherri Ann Charleston dating back to 2009 — a decade before she joined Harvard. [H/T Washington Free Beacon.]
Other allegations include failing to properly cite the work of other scholars and not even referencing them in footnotes. It comes merely weeks after Claudine Gay had to resign due to over 50 allegations of plagiarism and the handling of campus anti-Semitism.
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According to the Beacon, which conducted its own analysis of the complaint, Charleston allegedly quoted or paraphrased a dozen scholars without adequate attribution in her 2009 dissertation at the University of Michigan.
The complaint also alleges that she ultimately took credit for a study that her husband, LaVar Charleston wrote in 2012. He is currently the deputy vice chancellor for DEI at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That alleged instance of plagiarism came after she rehashed large portions of her husband’s paper in a peer-reviewed article they co-authored in 2014, according to the complaint.
The complaint also alleges that she ultimately took credit for a study that her husband, LaVar Charleston wrote in 2012. He is currently the deputy vice chancellor for DEI at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That alleged instance of plagiarism came after she rehashed large portions of her husband’s paper in a peer-reviewed article they co-authored in 2014, according to the complaint.
That article, published in the Journal of Negro Education in 2014, had the same findings, method and survey subject descriptions included in Charleston’s husband’s original paper, the complaint charges. In other words, they didn't even take the time to interview new subjects to verify data.
Reps for Harvard did not respond to The Beacon on whether they were probing the claims.
According to the outlet, the complaint was reportedly filed with the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. So maybe even Mister Charleston is in hot water.
It looks like plagiarism is the new DEI.
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