This is just a set of lawsuits waiting to happen to Harvard.
If she fails anyone they can fall back on her being a plagiarist and incapable of doing her job. If she passes people unable to fulfil the requirements others can fall back on her being inept and reducing the value of their achievements within the course.
There is no win for Claudine Gay in this one. Why not go all in and do research for a while and keep away from having any authority over those who have firstly earned their spot at Harvard properly and secondly wish to achieve a noble pursuit while there.
The school has shown it will burn itself down to keep giving her a six figure job, and that’s assuming people keep on the pressure to actually make the burn-down happen. Assuming she’s completely shameless—and she is a black, female academic—I think there are a lot of scenarios that are wins for her here.
Yeah, but do you think she cares about any of that? I suspect that any sting she’s feeling is in the blow to her ego and the reduction in salary and personal prestige. On an individual level for her, staying employed at Harvard is a win.
This is just a set of lawsuits waiting to happen to Harvard.
If she fails anyone they can fall back on her being a plagiarist and incapable of doing her job. If she passes people unable to fulfil the requirements others can fall back on her being inept and reducing the value of their achievements within the course.
There is no win for Claudine Gay in this one. Why not go all in and do research for a while and keep away from having any authority over those who have firstly earned their spot at Harvard properly and secondly wish to achieve a noble pursuit while there.
The school has shown it will burn itself down to keep giving her a six figure job, and that’s assuming people keep on the pressure to actually make the burn-down happen. Assuming she’s completely shameless—and she is a black, female academic—I think there are a lot of scenarios that are wins for her here.
An immediate win for her with the current circumstances is certainly something I short-sighted person would accept.
In the long game she's knocked the whole concept of DEI into a disarray of not being trustworthy.
Academically she'll be a footnote on what the worst of this push has provided.
Yeah, but do you think she cares about any of that? I suspect that any sting she’s feeling is in the blow to her ego and the reduction in salary and personal prestige. On an individual level for her, staying employed at Harvard is a win.
Apparently her salary hasn’t been reduced; she still makes the $900,000 a year she made as president.