“We worked to address relevant questions in a timely, fair, and diligent manner. We understand and acknowledge that many viewed our efforts as insufficiently transparent, raising questions regarding our process and standard of review,” the school told the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, according to a copy of the material reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Claudine Gay, a political scientist who served as Harvard’s president until earlier this month, was accused in late October of plagiarizing a number of passages in published academic articles over the course of decades. Additional allegations were made in subsequent weeks. The firestorm over her research ignited around the same time she was being criticized for how she handled concerns about antisemitism on campus.
The House committee, before which Gay testified in early December on the antisemitism issue, launched an investigation into how the school was addressing antisemitism, as well as the plagiarism allegations. The narrative submitted Friday was accompanied by other documents responsive to the committee’s request, a school spokesman said.