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Sherri Ann Charleston, Harvard University\u2019s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, has been accused of plagiarism.<\/p>\n
According to a complaint<\/a>, \u201cSherri Ann Charleston\u2019s dissertation contains a lot of other scholars\u2019 language verbatim without quotation marks. Parts of Charleston\u2019s dissertation were published previously, word for word, by her advisor, Rebecca Scott, and others. Charleston will lift whole sentences and paragraphs from other scholars\u2019 work without quotation marks, then add a correct reference somewhere in the footnote ending the long paragraph.\u201d<\/p>\n The Washington Free Beacon<\/a> analyzed the plagiarism allegations.<\/p>\n A paper from 2014 takes content from a paper from 2012, which was authored by Charleston, her husband, and Jerlando Jackson, who now serves as the dean of Michigan State University\u2019s College of Education.<\/p>\n The two papers contain identical student interviews, a violation of research ethics.<\/p>\n Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former associate provost at Boston University, told the Beacon that the 2014 paper may be \u201centirely counterfeit.\u201d<\/p>\n He emphasized that the paper is \u201cresearch fraud pure and simple.\u201d<\/p>\n The allegations against Harvard\u2019s diversity officer follow<\/a> former Harvard University president Claudine Gay being accused of plagiarism.<\/p>\n While she no longer serves as the university\u2019s president, it is believed<\/a> that Gay will remain as a political science professor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n