Aaron Sibarium, the star reporter at the Washington Free Beacon who helped expose Harvard President Claudine Gay as a serial plagiarist, has another blockbuster. This time it’s on Harvard’s chief diversity officer. From the report:

Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, lifting large portions of text without quotation marks and even taking credit for a study done by another scholar—her own husband—according to a complaint filed with the university on Monday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis.

The complaint makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston’s thin publication record. In her 2009 dissertation, submitted to the University of Michigan, Charleston quotes or paraphrases nearly a dozen scholars without proper attribution, the complaint alleges. And in her sole peer-reviewed journal article—coauthored with her husband, LaVar Charleston, in 2014—the couple recycle much of a 2012 study published by LaVar Charleston, the deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, framing the old material as new research.

There is, of course, something unsurprising about all of this. My guess is that Aaron could begin investigating every prominent diversity administrator and find something unfit in their work. After all, they’ve sought out a political job, not an academic one, at an academic institution. The whole enterprise is slightly off-kilter. Without a party filling the role of commissar, institutions have to hire their own. This is what they get.

Academia is now rife with intellectual fraud. The hard sciences aren’t spared, neither are the humanities. What possible hope is there for the merely political administrative staff? What’s perhaps a little shocking is that not even Harvard can avoid hiring top admin who have committed such intellectual crimes in their academic career.

We await the rightsizing of academia. These universities do not need such large endowments, and they have never needed such a large class of administrators. This kind of institutional obesity is a sign of deeper health problems and perhaps even a certain spiritual cynicism. Harvard’s motto is simply “Veritas,” or truth. It would make a good basis for reform.