Harvard University President Claudine Gay is requesting three additional corrections to her doctoral dissertation, as allegations that she repeatedly plagiarized her academic writings continue to mount.
The three corrections for her Ph.D. thesis are the second time this month that Gay has had to submit changes to her published work, as news outlets and conservative activist Chris Rufo continue to publish fresh allegations of plagiarism against her.
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On Tuesday, Harvard received a 37-page complaint detailing more than 40 possible instances of plagiarism committed by the university's embattled president, who has only been on the job since July but has faced growing calls to resign or be removed.
The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, reported that the latest corrections request did not address the initial allegations of plagiarism, which were first brought to the university's attention in October by the New York Post. A subcommittee of the Harvard Corporation, the university's highest governing body, then determined that Gay's dissertation included "duplicative language without appropriate attribution.”
As for the lengthy complaint, subcommittee members said it contained four allegations they had not previously been aware of, but they determined the new claims were without merit.
“The subcommittee of the Corporation has determined that no further action is required beyond the updates that have been and are being requested by President Gay,” members wrote, according to the Crimson.
The allegations of plagiarism first surfaced publicly while Gay was facing immense pressure to step down earlier this month after she refused during a hearing of the House Education and Workforce Committee to say whether Harvard considered calling for the genocide of Jews a violation of its conduct policies.
The week after the hearing, shortly after the first plagiarism allegations came to light, Harvard Corporation members said they stood by Gay and revealed they privately had conducted an independent review of Gay's scholarship over the previous month. That review "revealed a few instances of inadequate citation,” they said.
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Immediately after the corporation announced it was standing by Gay, questions were raised about what kind of scrutiny a student in a similar situation would have faced.
"Students who, for whatever reason, submit work either not their own or without clear attribution to its sources will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College," the university's plagiarism policy reads. "Students who have been found responsible for any violation of these standards will not be permitted to submit course evaluation of the course in which the infraction occurred."