REVEALED: The ‘better-qualified’ applicants Claudine Gay beat to become president of Harvard…after under-fire board member Penny Pritzker DIDN’T bother to review work later revealed as plagiarized

Harvard officials failed to conduct an investigation into ousted President Claudine Gay’s plagiarized academic works before hiring her, a bombshell report alleges.

Gay, 54, was instead chosen to lead the prestigious university thanks to her administrative experience, beating two other candidates with much more extensive scientific credentials, the report said. Harvard Crimson.

Although Gay’s career as a political scientist and administrator earned her acclaim, she had little published work behind her, which raised eyebrows when Harvard chose her in July 2023 over Tomiko Brown-Nagin and John F. Manning.

Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, has received the nation’s highest honor for writing American history and is known as one of the nation’s top legal scholars.

The same is said of Manning, who heads Harvard Law School after a career in which he argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and published more than 40 legal articles.

Harvard’s vetting process is under scrutiny because Gay was selected for her administrative experience, skipping over other candidates with better academic credentials, including legal expert Tomiko Brown-Nagin

John F. Manning (pictured), the dean of Harvard Law School, was also reportedly in the running before Harvard chose Gay as its new president

The report comes just over a month after Gay dramatically resigned as president of Harvard in January, just six months into her tenure as the first Black person to lead the university.

She resigned after intense scrutiny of her previous work, during which she was accused of plagiarism, or failing to properly cite certain aspects of two published articles and her dissertation.

The accusations were supported by billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who shared his outrage over Gay’s disastrous testimony in Congress in December about anti-Semitism on her campus.

She sparked backlash for failing to declare that calling for genocide of Jews was a violation of Harvard’s code of conduct.

Gay subsequently resigned amid outrage over the two issues, with the plagiarism allegations raising questions about how the scandal slipped under the radar before her appointment.

The answer, according to the Crimson, stems from the lack of any scientific review of her work by Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker and the Presidential Investigative Committee.

The newspaper, citing a person familiar with the vetting process, said the committee decided a thorough review was not necessary because of Gay’s experience as a successful administrator at the university.

She served as dean of the Social Sciences Department for three years and as dean of FAS for five years.

Harvard did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted by DailyMail.com.

The search committee is under scrutiny for its process in selecting gays – with the hunt for a new president reportedly now including Barack Obama

Dr. Alan Garber, the provost of Harvard, has taken over as actor and is currently the bookmakers’ favorite to take on the role full-time.

Gay’s election as the thirtieth president also reportedly lasted just five months, the shortest time taken by Harvard’s presidential search committee in nearly seventy years.

Dr. Alan Garber, the provost of Harvard, has taken over as an actor and is currently the bookmakers’ favorite to take on the role full-time – while other names are emerging as Harvard’s next president, including alum Barack Obama.

It’s unclear when the university will make a decision, as the vetting process that ultimately landed on Gay reportedly initially included about 600 nominations.

The shortlist was then narrowed down to fifty names, until Gay was among the twelve finalists who made it to an interview.

An insider at the trial also reportedly claimed that the search committee planned to prioritize the next president’s scientific credentials when the search began in 2022.

However, after Gay was selected in December 2022 — six months before she started the job — priorities appeared to have shifted, as Shirley M. Tilghman, former president of Princeton University, who was part of the process, said administrative experience was crucial.

She told the Crimson at the time: “It’s just too complicated a job for someone who has never dealt with something as complex as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

“So that eliminated a number of candidates who, while they were extraordinary scholars, did not actually have the depth of experience.”

Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker (pictured) and the presidential search committee are under fire for the process used to select homosexuals

An insider who has served on several college presidential search committees also claimed that Harvard does not tend to conduct plagiarism checks on candidates, something other colleges do.

This move led to Gay’s unsealing, as the search committee only launched an independent review process after the first allegations of plagiarism were made against Gay.

The review found several instances of “duplicative language” in her works, most notably a lack of proper citations to other academic writings.

In response to Gay’s public resignation, Harvard alumni formed a new group, the Black Alumnae of Harvard Equity Initiative (BAHEI), to demand that the university stand behind its first black president.

The group wrote a petition to the administration this month calling for DEI to be enshrined in nearly all aspects of the university, including professor hiring and student admissions.

The demands include guaranteeing that the ‘story surrounding Dr. Gay’s presidency is based on truth,” and the creation of a “DEI task force” on campus.