Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of Stanford, resigned in August after an investigation found serious flaws in studies he had supervised going back decades.
Claudine Gay, president of Harvard, resigned as the new year dawned, under mounting accusations of plagiarism going back to her graduate student days.
Then Neri Oxman, a former star professor at M.I.T., was accused of plagiarizing from Wikipedia, among other sources, in her dissertation.
The attacks on the integrity of higher education have come fast and furious over the last few years.
The affirmative action lawsuit against Harvard exposed how Asian American students must perform at a higher standard to win entry.
Persons:
Marc Tessier, Lavigne, Claudine Gay, Neri Oxman, Bill Ackman, Gay’s, ’, Sally Kornbluth
Organizations:
Stanford, Harvard, federal Varsity Blues
Locations:
résumé, Israel