Plagiarism allegations hit wife of investor advocating Harvard chief Claudine Gay’s departure

Apart from her dissertation, Business Insider also found plagiarism in Oxman’s research papers, including a 2007 paper titled “Get Real: Towards Performance Driven Computational Geometry” and a 2011 paper titled “Variable Property Rapid Prototyping.” The 2011 paper contained over 100 words from a book without citation, as well as verbatim sentences from another book and material from a 2004 paper, all without proper attribution.

Following Claudine Gay’s resignation, Ackman had in a 4,000-word post on X complained about “racism against white people”

However, when addressing the plagiarism allegations against his wife, Ackman adopted a different tone, expressing regret that his efforts in higher education reform had resulted in attacks on his family. He vowed to spearhead plagiarism reviews against current MIT faculty, board members, committees, and even the university president, Sally Kornbluth.

Ackman used to donate to the Democratic party. According to a report in The New York Times, he felt unhappy because, even after donating a lot of money to Harvard University for a long time, he didn’t get the level of influence he desired.

Meanwhile, Claudine Gay had resigned on Tuesday amid allegations of plagiarism and criticism for her testimony at a congressional hearing.

During the hearing, she had faced scrutiny for being unable to definitively state if calls for the genocide of Jews on campus violated the school’s conduct policy.

Following the hearing, conservative activists scrutinised her academic career, uncovering alleged instances of plagiarism in her 1997 doctoral dissertation. Initially supported by Harvard’s governing board, Gay faced further scrutiny when two additional instances of inadequate citation were discovered.

Gay’s resignation was celebrated by the conservatives who put her alleged plagiarism in the national spotlight.