“Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work”

36 Replies to ““Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work””

1. I started a small photography business in the very short gap between prosumer digital SLRs and “everyone has a cell phone camera”.

   Was asked for an “artist’s statement”, but couldn’t get beyond the “I took a pic of a tree in a field, I think it looks nice, I hope others do too and will buy a print”.

   So I used this:

   https://artybollocks.com/

   Pretty sure you wouldn’t need much to design a similar DIE resume builder.

   1. Heh.
      Reminds me of this:
      https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

2. You can’t blame total mediocrities who are promoted way beyond their meager abilities from … um … amplifying their assets, can you? Next thing you know, these homely hags will be hiring boyfriends and putting them on the public payroll. Oh wait!

   1. Mediocrity above went looking for mediocrity below as the goal was always to promote mediocrity. The ‘abovers’ loved it, for they knew the ones they were bringing in would never outshine (or expose) their own dullness. The ‘belowers’ loved it, for they knew it took all their effort just to forge their CV and glad to know nothing further would be expected of them.

   2. Oh, you mean Kate Telford and Rob Silver?

      Hoebags gotta do what they gotta do. The difference with street prostitutes and trollops like Charleston is that street prostitutes are at least somewhat honest about the value for money and their qualifications. It’s not clear to me what Telford’s qualifications are. She’s managed to destroy two elected governments: Justatwit and McSquinty.

      1. Well, living in the US, I was referring to Fani Willis and Cory Bush but it seems to be spreading.

   3. Well really, what else can you expect when race (and 2LGBTQ+++, feminism, obesity etc.) are more valued than merit?

3. Let’s see if Harvard is facing a revolt from the donating class.
   That’s the only thing that will fix the rot.

   1. 57% of their “revenue” comes from their hedge fund, not sure if they’ll notice if donations dry up

      1. Understood. They are not about to go broke.
         However, it appears that the effectiveness of the Board and administration is judged by the donations they bring in. Any reduction in current donation cash flow will be noticed.
         The highly vocal criticism from prominent grads doesn’t help either.

4. Remember reading in high school that France was diminished because all of the efforts of the thinkers and creators were obsessed with nothing more than creating useless toys for nobility ?

5. Black Scams Matter!

6. In what way is Harvard any different from a strip-mall “college”?

   1. Trading on their reputation, earned decades ago

   2. Tuition is more expensive.

   3. “In what way is Harvard any different from a strip-mall “college”?”

      Strip mall colleges must spray weed killer on any ivy on their buildings. Harvard is permitted to let the ivy grow and cover their buildings. From this, we can conclude that the only difference is zoning codes.

7. IMHO “plagiarism” isn’t the real problem here … the problem is “intelligence” i.e. lack thereof. Is this woman unaware that the average HS English teacher has a bevy of neat little computer applications that allow her to scan students papers and detect every WORD of plagiarism in students papers?

   This woman is simply … DUMB

   1. No, the real problem is that her plagiarized study survived the peer review process.

      None of this would have surfaced if those 3 college presidents hadn’t drawn attention to themselves with their horrible performance before Congress.

      Now, people are taking the time to look at everything.

      1. What? … “It depends on the context” … wasn’t a scholarly answer?

8. All Harvard student who were expelled or otherwise sanctioned for plagiarism should sue Harvard.

9. It seems that half of the administrative jobs at universities are welfare for humanities grads. Useless employees justifying their own existence is never going to end well. They are artificially making fast food more expensive by depriving them of a much larger labour pool. The private sector is equally corrupted with HR, PR, Communications and ESG bureaucrats.

10. If it can’t be explained simply then you do not understand what you are trying to explain. I think a famous scientist said that, I could be wrong.

    1. There are many of those quotes.

       It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a bar maid.
       Physical theories should be so simple that even a child could understand them.
       Whatever cannot be said clearly is probably not being thought clearly.
       They couldn’t reduce it to the Freshman level which means they didn’t really understand it.

       And my favorite (from the Original Star Trek)…

       It is clear that you did not understand (which highlighted the simple-mindedness of the speaker, not the people he directed his comment to).

11. There’s nothing now stopping us from submitting every article both published and submitted for publication to a plagiarism check. Some professors already do that with student essays.

    1. Plagiarism checks? I call BS. 20 million US college students equals maybe 200 million papers per year. Common subjects have maybe 10 million papers per year. There is bound to be a lot of duplicate work. Unless there are huge blocks like this idiot you might want to take it easy on a student. Too lazy to use synonyms and rephrase sentences? You get what you deserve. Whenever I write something that needs near verbatim repeating of a person smarter than me, I turn it inside out and backwards to say the same thing.

       1. In the old DOS world there was a utility (I believe it was called “grep”) which allowed you to compare two files for similarity of text. It could be run command line so you could set up near infinite batch commands – computers don’t care. Just set the limit to >50% similarity. In the examples given for this “scholar” her original investigative research was lifted almost verbatim from a previous study (of which her husband was a co-author) but presented as a new study. That’s more academic fraud than plagiarism.

          1. “grep” is Linux, not DOS.

       2. This from a guy who probably Googles something every day.

          The technology is already developed. What are we supposed to do — dedevelop it?

12. Gad Saad had a very good text in National Post, Jan 25 re all the rot in N American academia and how it should be remediated. But he’s optimistic, personally I don’t think the tide can be reversed. There are too many useless admin/management who just receive good money only to produce garbage deemed as “research”, DEI rules&regulations and basically just kick the can down the road only for the time to go by and receive more $.

13. Well the truth is, a great many of the university degrees awarded over the past 20 years are absolutely worthless.

    1. 100% for Humanities “graduates”
       Seriously. The average poster here on SDA has far more “scholarship” than the current crop of graduate twits.

       Yes, even Fred from BC

14. Veritas. We need a new sign Grandpa.

15. Maybe it is time for all the dumb white folk of the world to turn off/close all the shit they created for a few days.
    Maybe “they” will wake the hell up.

16. That’s what made them scary in the first place.. Talk about compliance?.. Here we have Miss. in way above her head with tons of unquestionable power.. FLEX..

    They did it to themselves..

17. Grifters gonna grift.

18. Unremarkably, none of them are more dishonest than the leader of the free world.