What recourse do students paying humongous sums for tuition, often going into debt, have for academic corruption? From Jeffrey Tucker at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
Whew, what a week it’s been for higher ed!
The Claudine Gay debacle at Harvard has raised some fundamental questions about academia in general. She was president of the university, traditionally seen as the pinnacle of American academia.
But a careful look at her extremely thin academic publishing record was packed with unattributed borrowings from other authors in her own field.
Once all of this became public, and in light of her Congressional testimony in which she found a new love for the free speech that has been heretofore nearly banned at Harvard, it became impossible for her to continue as president and so she resigned.
That’s the headline story but there is surely more going on. The press ran examples of her plagiarism. It was obvious to any graduate student that it qualified as such. It would result in removal from the class and likely the whole program.
And yet the president of Harvard got away with it for many years.
There had already been investigations ongoing but they seemed more performative than prosecutorial, which is a scandal of its own. Once it all came out into the open, thanks to independent reporters and media, there was no other way this could end.
The “pinnacle” is a fraud a smoke and mirrors delusion just like everything else in fake it til you make it FUSA.
It sounded like she was actually defending academic freedom but she ran afoul of the real controllers of the Judeo-Democracy.
Some quotes here or a citation there might have helped her.
Bad news for the small hats-the 18-34 demographic is never going to be onboard.