{"id":2139539,"date":"2024-01-03T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/claudine-gay-likely-to-retain-900000-harvard-salary-amid-plagiarism-scandal\/"},"modified":"2024-01-03T14:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T19:25:57","slug":"claudine-gay-likely-to-retain-900000-harvard-salary-amid-plagiarism-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/claudine-gay-likely-to-retain-900000-harvard-salary-amid-plagiarism-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudine Gay to keep $900k Harvard salary despite plagiarism scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclaudine-gay-likely-to-retain-900000-harvard-salary-amid-plagiarism-scandal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2139539&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Embattled \u200bformer Harvard President Claudine Gay \u200dcould retain a\u2062 nearly $900,000 salary as\u2062 she returns to &#8220;scholarship&#8221; on Harvard&#8217;s faculty amid an unresolved plagiarism scandal.<\/h2>\n<p>Gay&#8217;s return \u200bto the elite private school&#8217;s rank \u200cand file was announced in two Tuesday letters to the Harvard community from both Gay and the Harvard Corporation.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden loses ground with young voters and minority voting groups: \u2062poll<\/h3>\n<p>The university delivered a \u200dfull defense \u2062of Gay and \u200cdid not address any of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-president-retroactively-edits-her-work-after-plagiarism-accusations-makes-telling-changes\/\" title=\"Harvard President edits work after plagiarism claims, makes significant changes\">recent plagiarism allegations<\/a> \u200cas it announced \u200cher \u200cresignation \u200cand new role on the faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Some critics said the school&#8217;s decision to \u200ballow her to return unscathed to the\u2063 faculty is part of the\u200d diversity, equity, and inclusion framework Harvard has embraced.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult\u200b for Harvard to\u2064 just fire her,&#8221; Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation,\u200b told the Washington Examiner. &#8220;Just as her appointment was symbolic, her departure is symbolic. I think the country can learn a lesson that hiring and\u200b promotion should be done on merit and\u200c merit only.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According\u2064 to \u2063the\u2062 Harvard Crimson, Gay earned $879,079 as Faculty Arts and Sciences dean in 2021, preceded by a 2020 salary of $824,068 for that position.\u2063 Lawrence Bacow, who served as university president\u2063 before Gay, had an outgoing salary of over $1.3 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gonzalez went\u2064 on to argue that Gay&#8217;s promotion to the \u2064Harvard presidency was more about her being a black woman \u2014 the first\u2064 black president in \u200cthe school&#8217;s history \u2014 and \u200bless \u2062about her academic prowess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gay \u2064authored only 11\u200d peer-reviewed articles during her \u2064more than two decades as an academic, many of which have been caught\u2062 in\u2064 the plagiarism scandal, and wrote no books. Her topics of\u2064 discussion often\u200d revolved around race in \u2064politics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This\u200b is something that now we have become \u2062very\u2062 accustomed to hearing in the \u200bnews, especially since 2020, when the country entered some kind \u200cof trance on race,&#8221; Gonzalez said. &#8220;What your race is or what your ethnicity is now trumps your accomplishments.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>University officials continued to\u2063 defend Gay&#8217;s academic \u2063accomplishments on Tuesday even as Gay resigned amid scrutiny \u200dof them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;She has \u200ddevoted her career to an institution whose ideals and priorities she has worked tirelessly to \u200badvance, and we are grateful for the extraordinary contributions she has made \u2014 \u200dand will continue to make \u2062\u2014 as a leader, a teacher, a\u200c scholar, a \u2062mentor, and an inspiration\u200b to many,&#8221; the Harvard Corporation said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Gay&#8217;s anemic academic \u2062record prior to her short stint as Harvard president has focused attention on why the \u200buniversity allowed her\u200c to return to its ranks of scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Frederick \u200cM.\u2062 Hess, senior fellow and director of education \u2063policy \u200dstudies at the American \u2062Enterprise Institute, recalled from his time \u200bstudying alongside Gay in \u2063Harvard&#8217;s doctoral program years\u200d ago that Gay\u200c did \u200bnot seem at\u2063 the \u2062time to be an ideological crusader.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I tend to suspect that, like \u2064so many\u200b others, Gay embraced higher ed\u2019s DEI groupthink mostly \u2063as a means of personal advancement,&#8221;\u2063 Hess \u2064wrote on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Gay \u2063has spent \u200dmost of her time at Harvard as a bureaucrat,\u200d not a scholar,&#8221; Hess \u2063noted. &#8220;In 2022, when charged\u200b with implementing a Faculty\u2063 of Arts and Sciences anti-racism initiative, Gay sent \u200dan\u2064 email to the faculty seeking &#8216;requests for denaming&#8217;\u2063 of campus\u2063 buildings or programs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Harvard&#8217;s promotion and protection of Gay is part \u200bof\u2063 the broader,\u2063 decadeslong push by the ideological \u200bLeft to take over academia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-tech-is-still-radically-leftist-and-intolerant-heres-the-real-way-to-beat-it\/\" title=\"Big Tech Is Still Radically Leftist And Intolerant. Here\u2019s The Real Way To Beat It.\">control public discourse<\/a>, Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This whole thing is about what the future generations are taught: \u2062Who gets a say about what truth is, who determines \u200dwhat history \u200bis?&#8221; he added. &#8220;The Left is \u200bkeenly aware of this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, many academics and\u2064 journalists came out in defense of \u200bGay this week, downplaying the seriousness\u2064 of plagiarism findings.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063Associated Press on Wednesday dubbed plagiarism as the &#8220;new conservative weapon&#8221; in\u200d an article characterizing Gay&#8217;s\u200d resignation as a warning sign of future tactics from the\u200d Right.<\/p>\n<p>1619 Project creator and journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said Gay&#8217;s ouster is evidence that &#8220;academic \u2062freedom is under attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Racial justice \u2063programs are under attack. Black women will be made to pay,&#8221; Hannah-Jones\u2064 said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ibram X. Kendi, a professor \u200band prominent purveyor \u2064of\u200b critical \u200crace theory, blamed \u2063the &#8220;racist mob&#8221; who found in plagiarism a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ibram-x-kendi-accuses-racist-mob-of-being-behind-claudine-gays-resignation\/\" title=\"Ibram X. Kendi blames 'racist mob' for Claudine Gay's departure\">seemingly legitimate reason<\/a> for the attack&#8221; but is being used as a pretext for the underlying purpose of the criticism: &#8220;Because the person is\u2063 black.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The seemingly legitimate reason, in\u2063 this\u200d latest case at\u2062 Harvard, is primarily academic misconduct or plagiarism,&#8221; Kendi added. &#8220;The question \u2063to assess whether this \u200bwas a racist attack isn\u2019t whether Dr. Gay engaged in any misconduct.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner \u200breached out to Harvard for a request\u2064 for \u2062comment.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> The controversy\u200c surrounding Claudine Gay&#8217;s return to Harvard&#8217;s faculty raises questions \u2063about the\u2062 balance \u200bbetween merit-based appointments and diversity, equity, and inclusion measures in academia. How do\u2062 elite\u200d institutions navigate these \u200ccomplexities<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u200c The controversial return of former Harvard President Claudine Gay to the university&#8217;s faculty, amid an unresolved \u200cplagiarism scandal, has sparked a debate about diversity, equity,\u2064 and\u200c inclusion at the prestigious institution. Despite the allegations of plagiarism, Gay is\u200c set to retain her nearly $900,000 salary as she\u200d transitions back to a role in\u2064 &#8220;scholarship&#8221; at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of Gay&#8217;s return was made in two letters to the Harvard community, \u2062one from Gay herself and \u2062another from the Harvard Corporation. \u200bHowever, the university did \u200cnot address\u200c the recent plagiarism allegations in its defense of Gay. Critics argue that the\u200b decision to allow her to return unscathed is part of Harvard&#8217;s commitment to diversity\u2062 and inclusivity.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, \u2062expressed his view that it would be difficult for Harvard\u200b to terminate Gay&#8217;s position. He suggested that \u200bher original appointment as president\u200b was symbolic and that her departure would also carry symbolic weight. Gonzalez believes that hiring and promotion should\u200d be based solely on\u200c merit, rather than considerations of race or \u200bgender.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Harvard Crimson, Gay earned $879,079 \u200cas\u2062 the\u200c Faculty Arts and \u200cSciences dean in 2021, with a previous salary of $824,068 in 2020. In contrast, Harvard&#8217;s former president, \u2064Lawrence Bacow, had an \u200boutgoing\u200b salary of over $1.3 million. These figures have added \u200dfuel\u200b to the debate\u200c surrounding Gay&#8217;s appointment\u2063 and her compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, like Gonzalez, argue that Gay&#8217;s promotion\u2064 to the Harvard presidency was not \u200dprimarily based on her academic prowess \u2062but rather on her identity as a black\u2064 woman. They \u2062point out that Gay authored just 11 peer-reviewed articles during her academic career and has been\u200c implicated in the plagiarism scandal for \u2064several \u2062of them. Her\u2063 research primarily focuses on\u2063 race in\u200b politics.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez sees this as a reflection of a broader \u2062trend wherein an\u2062 individual&#8217;s race or ethnicity appears to outweigh their accomplishments. He argues that this emphasis on identity rather\u2063 than merit is a troubling development in society.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy surrounding Gay, university officials continue \u200dto defend\u2062 her\u2062 academic accomplishments. The \u200dHarvard Corporation stated that Gay has made extraordinary contributions to \u2062the institution and will continue\u2063 to \u2062do so in her new roles.<\/p>\n<p>While there are defenders of Gay&#8217;s appointment, critics question why the university allowed her to return \u200cto its ranks of scholars, particularly\u200b given her limited \u2063academic record prior to her presidency. \u2064Frederick M. Hess, a senior fellow and director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pinkerton-groomer-gate-how-democrats-transitioned-into-the-party-of-trans-extremists\/\" title=\"Pinkerton: \u2018Groomer-gate\u2019 \u2013 How Democrats Transitioned into the Party of Trans-Extremists\">education policy studies<\/a> at the American Enterprise \u2063Institute, recalls his\u200d time\u2063 studying alongside Gay and suggests that she may \u200bhave embraced higher education&#8217;s diversity, equity, and inclusion \u200bideology\u2063 as a means of personal advancement.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy surrounding Claudine Gay&#8217;s return to Harvard&#8217;s faculty highlights the increasing \u2062importance \u200cof diversity \u2062and inclusion at elite institutions. The \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-spy-behind-discredited-hunter-biden-letter-said-he-wanted-to-provide-biden-campaign-with-a-debate-talking-point\/\" title=\"Former spy wanted to give Biden campaign a debate topic with discredited Hunter Biden letter.\">debate raises questions<\/a> about the balance between\u2062 merit-based appointments\u200c and measures to \u2063promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia. As institutions \u2063grapple with these issues, it remains \u200cto be seen \u200dhow they \u200bwill navigate the complexities of balancing diversity with academic excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Harvard President Claudine Gay, amidst a plagiarism scandal, may keep her $900,000 salary as she transitions back to teaching. The Harvard community was informed of her return through letters from Gay and the Harvard Corporation. 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